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What Does Goat Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.
What does goat mean in the Bible?
The goat: the coarse animal drive of the body, the stubborn lower impulse loaded with the errors and appetites of the flesh.
Esoteric lens · Leviticus 16:22
Where goat appears in the Bible
Genesis 30:35
That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
1 Kings 20:27
The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.
1 Samuel 10:3
“Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of wine.
Goat through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 27:26
Christian Psychology
What a mind tends within itself becomes the very thing that provides for it. The gentle thoughts it has kept and cared for return as covering and warmth, clothing it against the cold of a fearful world. And the ground it stands on, its sense of a settled place to be, is purchased not by anything the world hands over but by what love has already grown quietly inside it.
So a mind is never provided for from outside. Its shelter and its footing come up out of its own tended thoughts, given back to it as everything it needs.
- Lambs: the gentle thoughts a mind has cared for, which return as covering and warmth against a fearful world
- Goats: the tended contents of the mind that purchase its footing, the inner provision that buys a settled place to stand
- Field: the ground a mind stands on, its sense of a secure place to be, bought by what love has grown within
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Esoteric · Genesis 30:35
Esoteric
This is the divine higher mind sorting its own herd, drawing off the marked and mixed from the plain. Laban is that spirit, the pure consciousness of the right side, and everything with white in it is spirit itself set apart, the goats the carnal thoughts of the left and the sheep the divine thoughts of the right. The whole occult work of the mind is here, a separation of pure from impure done by the higher intelligence and handed to what it has fathered.
What happens in a person is this quiet dividing of thought from thought, the spiritual mind lifting out what is speckled and clouded so the pure and the mixed no longer graze as one.
- Laban: the divine, higher mind, the pure consciousness of the right side doing the sorting
- White: the spirit, purity itself, the mark of what belongs to the higher mind
- Sheep: the divine thoughts of the right
- Goats: the carnal thoughts of the left
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What goat means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisGoat skins on hands and neck: He covers himself with hair to feel like Esau. A false integration: pretending to own instinct without really integrating it.Genesis 27:1-29
- PsychoanalysisDream of the striped goats: The prosperity is explained in a dream. Dreams reveal hidden meaning.Genesis 31:1-21
- PsychoanalysisGoat's blood on the tunic: Jacob once deceived his father with goat skins; now his sons deceive him with goat blood. The shadow returns across generations.Genesis 37:31-36
- PsychoanalysisYoung goat promised: The goat recurs: Jacob's goat skins, Joseph's goat blood, now Judah's goat. A thread of deception and its reversal.Genesis 38:1-26
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