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Genesis第46章

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1 At si Israel ay naglakbay na dala ang lahat niyang tinatangkilik, at napasa Beerseba, at naghandog ng mga hain sa Dios ng kaniyang amang si Isaac.

2 At kinausap ng Dios si Israel sa mga panaginip sa gabi, at sinabi, Jacob, Jacob. At sinabi niya, Narito ako:

3 At kaniyang sinabi, Ako'y Dios, ang Dios ng iyong ama, huwag kang matakot na bumaba sa Egipto: sapagka't doo'y gagawin kitang isang dakilang bansa:

4 Ako'y bababang kasama mo sa Egipto; at tunay na iaahon kita uli, at ipapatong ni Jose ang kaniyang kamay sa iyong mga mata.

5 At bumangon si Jacob mula sa Beerseba; at dinala ng mga anak ni Israel si Jacob na kanilang ama, at ang kanilang mga bata, at ang kanilang mga asawa, sa mga kariton na ipinadala ni Faraon kay Jacob.

6 At kanilang dinala ang kanilang mga hayop, at ang kanilang mga pag-aari na kanilang inimpok sa lupain ng Canaan, at na pasa Egipto, si Jacob at ang buong binhi niya na kasama niya.

7 Ang kaniyang mga anak na lalake at babae, at ang mga anak na lalake at babae ng kaniyang mga anak na kasama niya, at ang kaniyang buong binhi ay dinala niyang kasama niya sa Egipto.

8 At ito ang mga pangalan ng mga anak ni Israel, na napasa Egipto, ni Jacob at ng kaniyang mga anak: si Ruben na anak na panganay ni Jacob.

9 At ang mga anak ni Ruben; si Hanoch, at si Phallu, at si Hezron, at si Carmi.

10 At ang mga anak ni Simeon; si Jemuel, at si Jamin, at si Ohad, at si Jachin, at si Zohar, at si Saul na anak ng isang babaing taga Canaan.

11 At ang mga anak ni Levi; si Gerson, si Coat at si Merari.

12 At ang mga anak ni Juda; si Er, at si Onan, at si Sela, at si Phares, at si Zara; nguni't si Er at si Onan ay namatay sa lupain ng Canaan. At ang mga anak ni Phares, si Hezron at si Hamul.

13 At ang mga anak ni Issachar; si Thola, at si Phua, at si Job, at si Simron.

14 At ang mga anak ni Zabulon; si Sered; at si Elon, at si Jahleel.

15 Ito ang mga anak ni Lea, na kaniyang ipinanganak kay Jacob sa Padan-aram, sangpu ng kaniyang anak na babaing si Dina: ang lahat na taong kaniyang mga anak na lalake at babae ay tatlong pu't tatlo.

16 At ang mga anak ni Gad; si Ziphion, at si Aggi, si Suni, at si Ezbon, si Heri, at si Arodi, at si Areli.

17 At ang mga anak ni Aser; si Jimna; at si Ishua, at si Isui, at si Beria, at si Sera na kanilang kapatid na babae: at ang mga anak ni Beria; si Heber, at si Malchel.

18 Ito ang mga anak ni Zilpa na siyang ibinigay ni Laban kay Lea na kaniyang anak na babae, at ang mga ito ay kaniyang ipinanganak kay Jacob, na labing anim na tao.

19 Ang mga anak ni Raquel na asawa ni Jacob; si Jose at si Benjamin.

20 At kay Jose ay ipinanganak sa lupain ng Egipto si Manases at si Ephraim, na ipinanganak sa kaniya ni Asenath, na anak ni Potiphera na saserdote sa On.

21 At ang mga anak ni Benjamin; si Bela; at si Becher, at si Asbel, si Gera, at si Naaman, si Ehi, at si Ros, si Muppim, at si Huppim, at si Ard.

22 Ito ang mga anak ni Raquel na ipinanganak kay Jacob: lahat ay labing apat.

23 At ang mga anak ni Dan; si Husim.

24 At ang mga anak ni Nephtali; si Jahzeel, at si Guni, at si Jezer, at si Shillem.

25 Ito ang mga anak ni Bilha, na siyang ibinigay ni Laban kay Raquel na kaniyang anak, at ang mga ito ang ipinanganak niya kay Jacob; lahat na tao ay pito.

26 Lahat na tao na sumama kay Jacob sa Egipto, na nagsilabas sa kaniyang mga balakang, bukod pa ang mga asawa ng mga anak ni Jacob, ang lahat na tao ay anim na pu't anim;

27 At ang mga anak ni Jose na ipinanganak sa kaniya sa Egipto, ay dalawang katao; ang lahat na tao sa sangbahayan ni Jacob, na napasa Egipto, ay pitongpu.

28 At pinapagpauna niya si Juda kay Jose, upang ituro ang daan na patungo sa Gosen; at sila'y nagsidating sa lupain ng Gosen.

29 At inihanda ni Jose ang kaniyang karro, at sumampang sinalubong si Israel na kaniyang ama sa Gosen; at siya'y humarap sa kaniya, at yumakap sa kaniyang leeg, at umiyak sa kaniyang leeg na matagal.

30 At sinabi ni Israel kay Jose, Ngayo'y mamatay na ako yamang nakita ko na ang iyong mukha, na ikaw ay buhay pa.

31 At sinabi ni Jose sa kaniyang mga kapatid, at sa sangbahayan ng kaniyang ama, Ako'y aahon, at aking sasaysayin kay Faraon, at aking sasabihin sa kaniya. Ang aking mga kapatid, at ang sangbahayan ng aking ama, na nangasa lupain ng Canaan, ay naparito sa akin;

32 At ang mga lalake ay mga pastor, sapagka't sila'y naging tagapagalaga ng hayop, at kanilang dinala ang kanilang mga kawan, at ang kanilang mga bakahan, at ang lahat nilang tinatangkilik.

33 At mangyayaring, pagka tatawagin kayo ni Faraon, at sasabihin, Ano ang inyong hanapbuhay?

34 Na inyong sasabihin, Ang iyong mga lingkod ay naging tagapagalaga ng hayop mula sa aming pagkabata hanggang ngayon, kami at ang aming mga magulang; upang kayo'y matira sa lupain ng Gosen; sapagka't bawa't pastor ay kasuklamsuklam sa mga Egipcio.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#4818

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4818. 'And there Judah saw the daughter of a man, a Canaanite' means the affection for evil begotten by falsity springing from evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'the daughter' as the affection for good, dealt with in 2362, and in the contrary sense as the affection for evil, 3024; from the meaning of 'a man' as one who has intelligence and, in the abstract sense, as truth, but in the contrary sense as one who has no intelligence and as falsity, dealt with just above in 4816; and from the meaning of 'a Canaanite' as evil, dealt with in 1573, 1574. From these meanings it is evident that 'the daughter of a man, a Canaanite' means evil begotten by falsity springing from evil. What evil begotten by falsity springing from evil is will be stated below.

[2] Here the origins of the tribe of Judah must be stated first, since these are the subject in this chapter. That tribe, or the Jewish nation, has three origins, the first being Shelah, Judah's son by his Canaanite wife, the second and third being Perez and Zerah, Judah's sons by his daughter-in-law. The descent of the whole Jewish nation from these three sons of Judah is evident from the list of Jacob's sons and grandsons who accompanied him into Egypt, Genesis 46:12, and also from the grouping of them into families, referred to in Moses,

The sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Parzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. Numbers 26:20; 1 Chronicles 4:21.

From this the nature of that nation's origin is evident; that is to say, a third of them were descended from a Canaanite mother and two thirds from a daughter-in-law. They were all therefore the product of an illicit union, because marriages to daughters of the Canaanites were strictly forbidden - as may be seen in Genesis 24:3; Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3; 1 Kings 11:2; and Chapters 9, 10 of Ezra - while lying with a daughter-in-law was a capital offence, as is evident in Moses,

As regards a man who has lain with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be killed; they have committed perversion; 1 their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20:12.

What Judah and his daughter-in-law had done together was linked by him to the law regarding leviratical marriages, which lays down the duty of a brother but never of a father, as is evident from verse 26 of the present chapter. Judah's linking of their deed together to this law implies that the sons of Tamar were to be recognized as the sons of Er the firstborn, who was born from the Canaanite mother, and who was evil in Jehovah's eyes and was therefore made to die, verse 7. For initially those born in a leviratical marriage did not belong to the one from whom they had been conceived but to him whose seed was being raised up, as is clear from Deuteronomy 25:5-6, and also from verses 8 and 9 of the present chapter. Furthermore, the sons whom Tamar bore were the result of whoredom, for when Judah went in to her he thought she was a prostitute, verses 15-16, 21. From all this one can see the origin of the Jewish nation and what kind of origin this was; and one can see that their words in John were founded on a lie,

The Jews said to Him, We were not born of whoredom. John 8:41.

[3] As regards what that origin implies and what it represents, this is evident from what follows. That is to say, those people's interiors were the same or had the same origin. Judah's marriage to a Canaanite implies and represents an origin that consisted in evil begotten by falsity springing from evil, for this is what is meant in the internal sense by 'the daughter of a man, a Canaanite'. And his lying through whoredom with his daughter-in-law implies and represents condemnation due to truth falsified by evil, for throughout the Word 'whoredom' means the falsification of truth, see 3703. 2 Evil begotten by falsity springing from evil is an evil life resulting from a false teaching hatched by the evil of self-love - that is, by those governed by this evil - and backed up by a use of the sense of the letter of the Word. This is what the origin of the evil in the Jewish nation is like, and what the origin of the evil is like in the Christian world, especially among those meant in the Word by Babel. The nature of that evil is such that it closes every path leading into the internal man, closing every path so completely that no conscience at all can be formed there. For if any evil done by a person is due to a false teaching, he believes that this is good because he believes that it is true. He accordingly does it, because he has warrant to do so, with a sense of freedom and delight. All this being so, heaven is closed so completely against him that it cannot be opened.

[4] As an example to explain what this evil is like, take those who from the evil of self-love believe the following: One nation alone is Jehovah's chosen people, in comparison with whom all the rest of mankind are slaves. The rest, they believe, are so base that they may be killed at will and may be treated in a cruel fashion. Such ideas, likewise backed up by a use of the sense of the letter of the Word, were the beliefs of the Jewish nation, as they are also of the Babylonish 3 nation at the present day. Whatever kind of evil done by the latter that is the result of that false teaching, and of any other false teachings built on that one as their foundation, is evil begotten by falsity springing from evil. It destroys the internal man and shuts out even the possibility of any conscience being formed there. These people are referred to in the Word as those immersed in bloodshed; for they treat in savage ways the entire human race because it does not venerate what they believe and so themselves too, and because it does not present its gifts on their altars.

[5] Take another example - those who from the evil of self-love and love of the world believe in the necessity for someone to act as the Lord's vicar on earth. They believe that this person has power to open and close heaven, and so to control everyone's mind and conscience, and they back up this falsity by a use of the sense of the letter of the Word. In their case whatever kind of evil they perform as a result of these ideas is evil begotten by falsity springing from evil, which similarly destroys the internal man in those who are led by that evil to lay claim to that power and so control others. That evil destroys the internal man so completely that people cease to know any longer what the internal man is, or to know of the existence of conscience in anyone, with the result that they cease to believe any longer in a life after death, or in the existence of hell and of heaven, however much they talk about these.

[6] The nature of this evil is such that people in the world cannot tell it apart from other evils; but in the next life angels recognize it quite clearly. For in the next life the countless differences in the essential nature and the origin of evils and falsities are in full view; and it is also the genera and species to which these evils and falsities belong that mark off the hells from one another. Of these countless differences man knows scarcely anything. He believes in the existence of evil but has no knowledge of its essential nature, for the simple reason that he does not know what good is, and does not know what good is because he does not know what charity is. If he knew what the good of charity was he would also know its opposites, which are evils, and also their differences.

脚注:

1. literally, confusion

2. Reading 3703 for 3708

3. i. e. Papal

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