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Genezo第30章

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1 Kiam Rahxel vidis, ke sxi ne naskas al Jakob, sxi enviis sian fratinon, kaj sxi diris al Jakob: Donu al mi infanojn, cxar alie mi mortos.

2 Kaj Jakob forte ekkoleris Rahxelon, kaj li diris: CXu mi anstatauxas Dion, kiu rifuzis al vi frukton de ventro?

3 Kaj sxi diris: Jen estas mia sklavino Bilha; envenu al sxi, ke sxi nasku sur miaj genuoj kaj ke mi ankaux ricevu filojn per sxi.

4 Kaj sxi donis al li sian sklavinon Bilha kiel edzinon, kaj Jakob envenis al sxi.

5 Kaj Bilha gravedigxis kaj naskis al Jakob filon.

6 Kaj Rahxel diris: Dio min jugxis kaj auxdis mian vocxon kaj donis al mi filon; tial sxi donis al li la nomon Dan.

7 Kaj Bilha, la sklavino de Rahxel, denove gravedigxis kaj naskis duan filon al Jakob.

8 Tiam Rahxel diris: Per Dia lukto mi luktis kun mia fratino, kaj mi venkis; kaj sxi donis al li la nomon Naftali.

9 Kiam Lea vidis, ke sxi cxesis naski, sxi prenis sian sklavinon Zilpa kaj donis sxin al Jakob kiel edzinon.

10 Kaj Zilpa, la sklavino de Lea, naskis al Jakob filon.

11 Kaj Lea diris: Venis felicxo! kaj sxi donis al li la nomon Gad.

12 Kaj Zilpa, la sklavino de Lea, naskis duan filon al Jakob.

13 Kaj Lea diris: Por mia bono; cxar la virinoj diros, ke estas al mi bone. Kaj sxi donis al li la nomon Asxer.

14 Ruben iris en la tempo de rikoltado de tritiko kaj trovis mandragorojn sur la kampo, kaj li alportis ilin al sia patrino Lea. Kaj Rahxel diris al Lea: Donu al mi el la mandragoroj de via filo.

15 Sed tiu diris al sxi: CXu ne suficxas al vi, ke vi prenis mian edzon, kaj vi volas preni ankaux la mandragorojn de mia filo? Tiam Rahxel diris: Nu, li kusxu kun vi cxi tiun nokton por la mandragoroj de via filo.

16 Kiam Jakob venis de la kampo vespere, Lea eliris al li renkonte, kaj diris: Al mi venu, cxar mi acxetis vin per la mandragoroj de mia filo. Kaj li kusxis kun sxi en tiu nokto.

17 Kaj Dio auxdis Lean, kaj sxi gravedigxis kaj naskis al Jakob kvinan filon.

18 Kaj Lea diris: Dio donis al mi rekompencon por tio, ke mi donis mian sklavinon al mia edzo; kaj sxi donis al li la nomon Isahxar.

19 Kaj Lea denove gravedigxis kaj naskis sesan filon al Jakob.

20 Kaj Lea diris: Havigis al mi Dio bonan havon; nun mia edzo logxos cxe mi, cxar mi naskis al li ses filojn. Kaj sxi donis al li la nomon Zebulun.

21 Kaj poste sxi naskis filinon, kaj sxi donis al sxi la nomon Dina.

22 Kaj Dio rememoris Rahxelon, kaj Dio elauxdis sxin kaj malsxlosis sxian uteron.

23 Kaj sxi gravedigxis kaj naskis filon. Kaj sxi diris: Dio forprenis mian malhonoron.

24 Kaj sxi donis al li la nomon Jozef, dirante: La Eternulo aldonos al mi alian filon.

25 Kiam Rahxel naskis Jozefon, Jakob diris al Laban: Forliberigu min, kaj mi iros al mia loko kaj al mia lando.

26 Donu miajn edzinojn kaj miajn infanojn, pro kiuj mi servis vin, kaj mi iros; cxar vi konas la servon, per kiu mi vin servis.

27 Kaj Laban diris al li: Ho, se mi povus akiri vian favoron! mi spertis, ke la Eternulo benis min pro vi.

28 Kaj li diris: Difinu, kian rekompencon mi sxuldas al vi, kaj mi donos.

29 Kaj tiu diris al li: Vi scias, kiel mi servis vin kaj kia farigxis via brutaro cxe mi;

30 cxar malmulte vi havis antaux mi, sed nun gxi multe vastigxis; kaj la Eternulo benis vin post mia veno; kaj nun kiam mi laboros ankaux por mia domo?

31 Kaj Laban diris: Kion mi donu al vi? Kaj Jakob diris: donu al mi nenion; sed se vi faros al mi jenon, tiam mi denove pasxtos kaj gardos viajn sxafojn:

32 mi pasos hodiaux tra via tuta sxafaro; apartigu el gxi cxiun sxafon mikskoloran kaj makulitan kaj cxiun bruton nigran inter la sxafoj, kaj makulitan kaj mikskoloran inter la kaproj; kaj ili estu mia rekompenco.

33 Kaj respondos por mi mia justeco en la morgauxa tago, kiam vi venos vidi mian rekompencon; cxiu el la kaproj, kiu ne estos mikskolora aux makulita, kaj cxiu el la sxafoj, kiu ne estos nigra, estu rigardata kiel sxtelita de mi.

34 Kaj Laban diris: GXi estu, kiel vi diris.

35 Kaj li apartigis en tiu tago la virkaprojn striitajn kaj makulitajn kaj cxiujn kaprinojn mikskolorajn kaj makulitajn, cxiujn, kiuj havis sur si iom da blankajxo, kaj cxiujn nigrajn sxafojn; kaj li transdonis ilin en la manojn de siaj filoj.

36 Kaj li faris interspacon de tritaga irado inter si kaj Jakob. Kaj Jakob pasxtis la restintajn sxafojn de Laban.

37 Kaj Jakob prenis al si bastonojn el verdaj poploj, migdalarboj, kaj platanarboj, kaj sensxeligis sur ili blankajn striojn tiamaniere, ke la blankajxo sur la bastonoj elmontrigxis.

38 Kaj li metis la skrapitajn bastonojn antaux la sxafoj en la akvotrinkigajn kanalojn, al kiuj la sxafoj venadis por trinki, kaj ili gravedigxadis, kiam ili venadis trinki.

39 Kaj la sxafoj gravedigxis super la bastonoj, kaj ili naskis sxafidojn striitajn, mikskolorajn, kaj makulitajn.

40 Kaj la sxafidojn Jakob apartigis, kaj li turnis la vizagxojn de la brutoj kontraux la striitajn kaj kontraux la nigrajn brutojn de Laban; sed siajn brutarojn li apartigis kaj ne almiksis ilin al la brutoj de Laban.

41 CXiufoje, kiam pasiigxis brutoj fortaj, Jakob metis la bastonojn en la kanalojn antaux la okuloj de la brutoj, por ke ili pasiigxu antaux la bastonoj;

42 sed kiam la brutoj estis malfortaj, li ne metis. Tiamaniere la malfortaj farigxis apartenajxo de Laban, kaj la fortaj farigxis apartenajxo de Jakob.

43 Kaj tiu homo farigxis eksterordinare ricxa, kaj li havis multe da brutoj kaj sklavinojn kaj sklavojn kaj kamelojn kaj azenojn.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#3727

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3727. As regards the meaning of 'a pillar', the reason why it means a holy boundary and so the ultimate degree of order is that in most ancient times people used to place stones where their boundaries ran which separated one person's property or inheritance from another's. These served as a sign and witness to the existence of the boundaries there. The most ancient people, who in every object and in every pillar thought of something celestial or spiritual, 1977, 2995, thought, when they saw these stones set up as pillars, of the ultimate things present in man, and so of the ultimate degree of order, which is truth in the natural man. And it was from those most ancient people who lived before the Flood that the ancients who lived after it acquired this custom, 920, 1409, 2179, 2896, 2897, and began to regard the stones they set up on their boundaries as sacred, for the reason, as stated, that they meant holy truth as it exists in the ultimate degree of order, and also called those stones 'pillars'. This was how it came about that pillars were introduced into their worship, and why they erected them where they had their sacred groves and subsequently their temples, and also anointed them with oil, a point to be dealt with shortly. Indeed the worship of the Ancient Church consisted of things that had been perceived and things that had carried a meaning among the most ancient people prior to the Flood, as is evident from the paragraphs that have just been referred to. Since the most ancient people talked to angels and were in their company while still on earth, they received it from heaven that 'stones' means truth and 'wood' good; see just above in 3720. This then is why 'pillars' means a holy boundary, and so truth as it exists in the ultimate degree of order with man. For good which flows in from the Lord by way of the internal man terminates in the external man, and in the truth that is there. Man's thought, speech, and activity, which are the ultimates of order, are nothing else than truths stemming from good. In fact they are the images or forms which good takes, for they belong to the understanding part of the human mind, whereas the good that is within them, and from which they spring, belongs to the will part.

[2] The fact that pillars were erected as a sign and a witness, and were also introduced into worship, and that in the internal sense they mean a holy boundary, or truth within man's natural, which is the ultimate degree of order, becomes clear from other places in the Word, as in the following verses where the subject is the covenant made between Laban and Jacob,

Now come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and let it be a witness between me and you. And Jacob took a stone and erected it as a pillar. Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have erected between me and you. This heap is a witness and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and that you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm. Genesis 31:44-45, 51-52.

Here 'pillar' means truth, as will be seen in the explanation of those verses.

[3] In Isaiah,

On that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak with the lips of Canaan and swear to Jehovah Zebaoth. On that day there will be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to Jehovah, which will be a sign and a witness to Jehovah Zebaoth in the land of Egypt. Isaiah 19:18-20.

'Egypt' stands for facts which belong to the natural man, 'an altar' for Divine worship in general, for in the second Ancient Church that began with Eber the altar became the first and foremost representative in its worship, 921, 1343, 2777, 2811. 'The midst of the land of Egypt' stands for the primary and inmost aspect of worship, 2940, 2973, 3436. 'Pillar' stands for truth as it exists in the ultimate degree of order in the natural. The fact that it stood at the border as a sign and a witness is quite evident.

[4] In Moses,

Moses wrote down all the words of Jehovah and rose up in the morning and built an altar beside Mount Sinai, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. Exodus 24:4.

Here similarly 'an altar' was the representative of all worship, and indeed was the representative of good present in worship. 'The twelve pillars' however were the representative in worship of truth that stems from good - 'twelve' meaning every aspect of truth in its entirety, see 577, 2089, 2129 (end), 2130 (end), 3272; and the twelve tribes likewise meaning every aspect of truth in the Church, as in the Lord's Divine mercy will be shown in the next chapter.

[5] Because altars were representative of all good in worship, and the Jewish Church was established so as to represent the celestial Church which acknowledged no other truth than truth stemming from good, which is called celestial truth (for the celestial Church was totally unwilling to separate truth from good, so much so that it was unwilling even to refer to anything of faith or truth without thinking about good, and doing so from good, see 202, 337, 2069, 2715, 2718, 3246), truth was therefore represented by the stones of the altar. And they were forbidden to represent it by means of pillars lest in so doing they separated truth from good and by representation worshipped truth instead of good. This accounts for the following prohibition in Moses,

You shall not plant for yourself a grove of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah your God which you shall make for yourself. And you shall not erect for yourself a pillar, which Jehovah your God hates. Deuteronomy 16:21-22.

For worshipping truth separated from good, or faith separated from charity, is contrary to the Divine since it is contrary to order, meant by 'you shall not erect for yourself a pillar, which Jehovah your God hates'.

[6] Despite this they did erect them and so represented things that are contrary to order, as is clear in Hosea,

Israel, according to the multiplying of his fruit, multiplies altars; according to the goodness of their land they make well their pillars. But He will overturn their altars, and lay waste their pillars. Hosea 10:1-2.

In the first Book of Kings,

Judah did what was evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and they built for themselves high places and pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree. 1 Kings 14:22-23.

In the second Book of Kings,

The children of Israel set up pillars for themselves and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. 2 Kings 17:10.

In the same book,

Hezekiah removed the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the grove, and smashed the bronze snake which Moses had made, because they had been burning incense to it. 2 Kings 18:4.

[7] Since gentile nations too derived through tradition the idea that the holiness of worship was to be represented by means of altars and pillars, and yet they were under the influence of evil and falsity, the altars among the nations therefore mean the evils of worship and the pillars the falsities. This was why the command was given for them to be destroyed. In Moses,

The altars of the nations you shall overthrow, and you shall break down their pillars and tear down their groves. Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 7:5; 12:3.

In the same author,

You shall not bow down to the gods of the nations, or worship them, or do according to their works, for you shall utterly destroy them, and utterly break down their pillars. Exodus 23:24.

'The gods of the nations' stands for falsities, 'their works' for evils, 'breaking down their pillars' for destroying worship arising out of falsity.

[8] In Jeremiah,

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel will break down the pillars of the house of the sun that is in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire. Jeremiah 43:13.

In Ezekiel,

By means of the hoofs of his horses Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel will trample all your streets, slay the people with the sword, and cause your mighty pillars to come down to the ground. Ezekiel 26:11.

This refers to Tyre. 'Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel' stands for that which lays waste, 1327 (end). 'The hoofs of horses' stands for the lowest form of intellectual concepts, such as facts based on mere sensory impressions - 'hoofs' meaning lowest concepts, as will in the Lord's Divine mercy be confirmed elsewhere. 'Horses' stands for matters of the understanding, 2760-2762, 'streets' for truths, and in the contrary sense for falsities, 2336. 'trampling' on them is destroying cognitions of truth, which are meant by 'Tyre' - 'Tyre', the subject here, meaning cognitions of truth, 1201. 'Slaying the people with the sword' stands for destroying truths by means of falsity - 'people' being used in reference to truths, 1259, 1260, 3295, 3581, and 'sword' meaning falsity engaged in conflict, 2799. From this one may see what 'causing your mighty pillars to come down to the ground' means - 'might' being used in reference either to truth or to falsity, as is also clear from the Word.

  
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Genesis第31章:51-52

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51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.