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1 Mosebok第30章

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1 Da akel så at hun og Jakob ikke fikk barn, blev hun misunnelig på sin søster og sa til Jakob: La mig få barn! Ellers dør jeg.

2 Da optendtes Jakobs vrede mot akel, og han sa: Er jeg i Guds sted, som har nektet dig livsfrukt?

3 Da sa hun: Se, der er min trælkvinne Bilha; gå inn til henne, forat hun kan føde på mine knær*, så også jeg kan få barn ved henne! / {* d.e. føde barn som jeg kan ta til mig som mine.}

4 Så gav hun sin trælkvinne Bilha til hustru, og Jakob gikk inn til henne.

5 Og Bilha blev fruktsommelig og fødte Jakob en sønn.

6 Da sa akel: Gud har dømt i min sak; han har hørt min bønn og gitt mig en sønn. Derfor kalte hun ham Dan*. / {* dommer.}

7 Og Bilha, akels trælkvinne, blev atter fruktsommelig og fødte Jakob ennu en sønn.

8 Da sa akel: Jeg har kjempet Guds kamper med min søster, og nu har jeg vunnet. Og hun kalte ham Naftali*. / {* den jeg har vunnet med kamp.}

9 Da Lea så at hun ikke fikk flere barn, tok hun sin trælkvinne Silpa og gav Jakob til hustru.

10 Og Silpa, Leas trælkvinne, fødte Jakob en sønn.

11 Da sa Lea: Til lykke! Og hun kalte ham Gad*. / {* lykke.}

12 Og Silpa, Leas trælkvinne, fødte Jakob ennu en sønn.

13 Da sa Lea: Hvor lykkelig jeg er! For alle kvinner vil prise mig lykkelig. Og hun kalte ham Aser*. / {* lykkelig.}

14 En dag i hvetehøstens tid gikk uben ut og fant alruner* på marken og bar dem hjem til Lea, sin mor; da sa akel til Lea: Kjære, gi mig nogen av din sønns alruner! / {* d.e. et slags plante som mentes å kunne vekke elskov og fremkalle svangerskap.}

15 Men hun svarte henne: Er det ikke nok at du har tatt min mann? Vil du nu også ta min sønns alruner? Da sa akel: Nu vel, han kan sove hos dig inatt, hvis jeg får din sønns alruner!

16 Da Jakob om aftenen kom hjem fra marken, gikk Lea ham i møte og sa: Det er hos mig du skal være inatt; jeg har tinget dig for min sønns alruner. Så lå han hos henne den natt.

17 Og Gud hørte Lea, og hun blev fruktsommelig og fødte Jakob en femte sønn.

18 Da sa Lea: Gud har gitt mig min lønn, fordi jeg lot min mann få min trælkvinne. Og hun kalte ham Issakar*. / {* han kommer med lønn.}

19 Og Lea blev atter fruktsommelig og fødte Jakob en sjette sønn.

20 Da sa Lea: Gud har gitt mig en god gave; nu kommer min mann til å bo hos mig, for jeg har født ham seks sønner. Og hun kalte ham Sebulon*. / {* boende mann.}

21 Siden fødte hun en datter og kalte henne Dina.

22 Da kom Gud akel i hu, og Gud hørte henne og åpnet hennes morsliv.

23 Hun blev fruktsommelig og fødte en sønn. Da sa hun: Gud har tatt bort min skam.

24 Og hun kalte ham Josef* og sa: Herren gi mig ennu en sønn! / {* han legger til.}

25 Da nu akel hadde født Josef, sa Jakob til Laban: La mig fare, så jeg kan dra hjem til mitt eget land!

26 Gi mig mine hustruer og mine barn, som jeg har tjent dig for, så vil jeg dra bort; du vet jo selv hvorledes jeg har tjent dig.

27 Da sa Laban til ham: Om du bare hadde nogen godhet for mig! Jeg er blitt varslet om at det er for din skyld Herren har velsignet mig.

28 sa han: Si selv hvad du vil ha i lønn, så skal jeg gi dig det.

29 Og Jakob sa til ham: Du vet selv hvorledes jeg har tjent dig, og hvad din buskap er blitt til under mine hender.

30 For det var lite det du hadde før jeg kom, men nu har det øket til en stor mengde, og Herren har velsignet dig hvor jeg satte min fot. Men når skal jeg nu også få gjøre noget for mitt eget hus?

31 Da sa Laban: Hvad skal jeg gi dig? Jakob svarte: Du skal ikke gi mig noget; dersom du vil gjøre som jeg nu sier, så skal jeg gjæte din buskap og vokte den, som jeg har gjort.

32 Jeg vil idag gå gjennem hele din hjord og skille ut alt som er flekket og spraglet og alt som er sort blandt fårene, og likeså alt som er spraglet og flekket blandt gjetene; og det skal være min lønn.

33 Og min ærlighet skal vidne for mig, når du siden engang kommer og ser over min lønn. Finnes det hos mig nogen gjet som ikke er flekket og spraglet, og noget får som ikke er sort, så er det stjålet.

34 Da sa Laban: Vel, la det være som du har sagt!

35 Og samme dag skilte han ut de stripete og spraglete gjetebukker og alle flekkete og spraglete gjeter, alt det som hadde noget hvitt på sig, og alt sort blandt fårene; og han lot sine sønner ta vare på det,

36 og han la tre dagsreiser mellem sig og Jakob. Og Jakob gjætte resten av Labans småfe.

37 Men Jakob tok sig friske kjepper av poppel-, hassel- og lønnetrær og skavde hvite striper på dem, så det hvite på kjeppene kom frem.

38 Og han la kjeppene som han hadde skavd, i rennene - i vanntrauene, hvor småfeet kom for å drikke, like foran småfeet; for de parret sig når de kom for å drikke.

39 Så parret småfeet sig ved kjeppene og fikk stripete, flekkete og spraglete unger.

40 Men lammene skilte Jakob ut og lot småfeet vende øinene mot det stripete og alt det sorte blandt Labans småfe; og således fikk han sig hjorder for sig selv og slapp dem ikke sammen med Labans småfe.

41 Og hver gang det sterke småfe parret sig, la Jakob kjeppene midt for øinene på dem i rennene, forat de skulde parre sig ved kjeppene;

42 men når det var svakt småfe, la han ikke kjeppene der; således kom de svake til å tilhøre Laban og de sterke Jakob.

43 Og mannen blev rikere og rikere, og han fikk meget småfe og trælkvinner og træler og kameler og asener.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#3957

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3957. 'And she called his name Issachar' means the essential nature of it. This is clear from the meaning of 'calling the name' as the essential nature, as above in 3923, 3935. For he was given the name Issachar from the word 'reward', a name which therefore embodies the things stated above concerning 'reward', and at the same time the things meant by the rest of the words uttered by Leah. Since 'Issachar' means reward, and 'reward' in the external sense is mutual love and in the internal sense the joining together of good and truth, let it be said that very few nowadays in the Christian world know that 'reward' has such a meaning. And the reason why they do not know is that they do not know what mutual love is, still less that good has to be joined to truth if the heavenly marriage is to exist in a person. I have been allowed in the next life to talk about this to very many who were from the Christian world, including the more learned. But what is surprising, scarcely any one of those I talked to knew anything about it, even though they could have come to know much about those matters for themselves if only they had been willing to use their reason. But because they were not concerned about life after death, only about life in the world, they were not interested in such matters. The things they could have known for themselves if only, as has been stated, they had been willing to use their reason were the following:

[2] a When a person is stripped of the body he has a far more enlightened power of understanding than when he is living in the body, the reason being that when he is in the body worldly and bodily interests occupy his thoughts and bring obscurity there. But once he has been stripped of the body those worldly and bodily interests do not get in the way, but through the removal of his mind from sensory experiences of external things he is like those whose thought is more interior. From this consideration they could have known that in the state after death a person is far more clear-sighted and enlightened than in the state before death, and that when a person dies he passes from shade into that which, in comparison with it, is light, because he passes from the things which belong to the world to those which belong to heaven, and from those which belong to the body to those which belong to the spirit. But what is amazing, although people have the ability to understand these things they still think the contrary. That is to say, they think it is in the state of life within the body that a person enjoys clear-sightedness, as compared with the state of life after being stripped of the body, which to them is a state of obscurity.

[3] b They are able to know, if only they use their reason, that the life which a person acquires to himself in the world follows him when he dies, that is, his life is the same after death. For they are able to know that nobody can cast aside the life he has acquired to himself since earliest childhood except by death itself, and that that life cannot be transformed in a moment into any other life, let alone into a contrary life. For example: Someone who has acquired to himself a life of deceit and finds the delight of his life in that deceit cannot cast aside the life of deceit but goes on with that life after death. Or to take another example, people who are governed by self-love and consequently by forms of hatred and revenge against those who are not subservient, or by other similar traits, continue to be governed by these after the life of the body, for they are the things which they love and which constitute the delights of their life and so their very life itself. Such traits cannot therefore be taken away from them unless everything making up their life is wiped out at the same time. And the same applies to all other kinds of life that people have acquired.

[4] c A person is able to know for himself that when he passes into the next life he leaves many things behind him. He knows - since they have no place there - that he leaves behind, for example, anxious cares over food, clothing, accommodation, and the acquisition of money and wealth, as well as anxious cares about his promotion to positions of importance - matters to which a person gives so much thought during the life of the body. Indeed he knows that other things which do not belong to the earthly kingdom take the place of these.

[5] d From this he is able to know that anyone who in the world has thought about nothing else than worldly things such as these, so much so that they have taken a complete hold on him, and who has acquired a delight of life in those things alone, is not suited to be among those who delight to think of heavenly matters, that is, of things of heaven.

[6] e From this in turn he is able to know that if the external things of the body and of the world are taken away from those people, the individual is in that case such as he has been inwardly, that is to say, he thinks and wills as he did previously. If the thoughts within had at that time been deceits, schemings, aspirations after positions of importance, gain, and reputation on account of these; if hatred and revenge and similar passions have been present within, he goes on thinking such things, and so thinking the things of hell, though to achieve those ends he has concealed his thoughts from other people and to outward appearance has seemed honourable and produced in others the conviction that he was not turning such thoughts over in his mind. Knowledge that such outward appearance or presence at being honourable is removed in the next life may also be had from the fact that outward things are cast aside along with the body and have no further use. From this anyone can decide for himself that a person's real character will then be visible to the angels.

[7] f A person is also able to know that heaven, or the Lord by means of heaven, is constantly at work, flowing in with good and truth. But if there is not within a person's interior man that lives after death of the body some solid surface or some plane so to speak to receive good and truth, these cannot be received at all when they flow in. Therefore while a person is living in the world he ought to be anxious to obtain such an interior plane within himself. But he cannot obtain this unless he thinks of good towards his neighbour, desires for him that which is good, and consequently does this for him, and so acquires to himself the delight of life in such actions. This plane is acquired by means of charity towards the neighbour, that is, by mutual love; and it is what is called conscience. Into this plane good and truth from the Lord are able to flow in and be received there. But where charity does not exist, and so conscience does not exist, good and truth flowing in pass through and are converted into evil and falsity.

[8] g A person is able to know for himself that love to God and love towards the neighbour are what make a person a human being, different from animals, and that those things constitute heavenly life or heaven itself and their opposites hellish life or hell itself. But these things are not known by a person because, for one thing, he has no wish to know them since he is leading a life to the contrary; for another, he does not believe in the existence of life after death; and for yet another, ideas about faith but none about charity have taken hold of him, and therefore he believes, as many teach, that if there is a life after death he can be saved by faith, no matter what kind of life he has led, and that he can be saved if faith is received by him only in his last hour when he is dying.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.