Genesis (American Standard Version, 1901) · 66 of 73 · tr. American Standard Version (1901)
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[46:1] And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
[46:2] And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
[46:3] And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
[46:4] I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
[46:5] And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
[46:6] And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
[46:7] his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
[46:8] And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s first-born.
[46:9] And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
[46:10] And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
[46:11] And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
[46:12] And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
[46:13] And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron.
[46:14] And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
[46:15] These are the sons of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
[46:16] And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
[46:17] And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.
[46:18] These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
[46:19] The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
[46:20] And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him.
[46:21] And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.
God is described as speaking, calling by name, making promises, and physically 'going down' with Jacob into Egypt, attributing human-like agency and movement to the divine.
A binding agreement or relationship between the divine and a people or individual, establishing mutual obligations.
The passage presents a binding divine-human relationship in which God promises to make Jacob a great nation and to bring him up from Egypt, establishing mutual obligations between the divine and the patriarchal line.
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
God actively orders the unfolding of human affairs toward intelligible ends, commanding Jacob to go to Egypt, promising to make of him a great nation, and vowing to accompany him and bring him back.
A non-physical dimension of reality, interpenetrating the physical world, populated by forces, beings, and forms ordinarily imperceptible to physical senses and instruments, that can affect embodied life without being seen — Dion Fortune's 'mind-side of nature,' the astral plane of Western esotericism broadly construed. Distinct from astral_light (a specific transmitting medium or fluid operating within this realm, not the realm itself), pleroma (the divine fullness at the summit of a cosmic hierarchy, not a parallel plane coextensive with ordinary life), and animism (particular indwelling spirits bound to specific natural objects, not the general unseen dimension itself).
God speaks to Israel 'in the visions of the night,' indicating a non-physical dimension of encounter that interpenetrates the physical world and is ordinarily imperceptible.
The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.
God is depicted as a personal, active, responsive reality who speaks in the night, calls Jacob by name, gives commands, and makes specific promises about going down to Egypt and bringing him back up.