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这些人的后裔分散居住在沿海的土地和岛屿上。各人随着自己的方言、宗族，住在自己的国土中。
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古实的儿子是西巴、哈腓拉、撒弗他、拉玛和撒弗提迦。拉玛的儿子是示巴和底但。
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古实又生宁录；宁录是世上第一位英雄。
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他在耶和华面前是个英勇的猎人；因此有句俗语说：“就像宁录一样，在耶和华面前是个英勇的猎人。”
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他从那地出来，到亚述去，建造了尼尼微、利河伯城、迦拉，
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帕斯鲁细人、迦斯路希人和迦斐托人；从迦斐托出来的有非利士人。
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以及耶布斯人、亚摩利人、革迦撒人、
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希未人、亚基人、西尼人、
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迦南人的境界是从西顿伸向基拉耳，直到迦萨；又伸向所多玛、蛾摩拉、押玛、洗扁，直到拉沙。
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这些人都是含的子孙，随着自己的宗族、方言，住在自己的国土中。
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亚法撒生沙拉，沙拉生希伯。
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希伯生了两个儿子，一个名叫法勒，因为他在世的时候，世人就分散了；法勒的兄弟名叫约坍。
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俄巴路、亚比玛利、示巴、
Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff
These chapters - with all the "begats" - don't seem to add a lot to the Bible reading experience. But... guess what! They're actually kind of interesting on the inside. This chapter actually describes the spread, and then the spiritual decline, of the Ancient Church.
In his exegesis, or explanation, of the kinds of religious thinking that the various people represent, Swedenborg provides some insight into human history, and into patterns of thought in our own lives, too.
Here are some excerpts from Swedenborg's "Arcana Coelestia":
AC 1130. The subject treated of throughout this whole chapter is the Ancient Church, and its propagation (verse 1).
AC 1131. They who had external worship corresponding to internal are the "sons of Japheth" (verse 2). They who had worship more remote from internal are the "sons of Gomer and Javan" (verses 3, 4). And they who had worship still more remote are the "isles of the nations" (verse 5).
AC 1132. They who cultivated knowledges, memory-knowledges, and rituals, and separated them from things internal, are the "sons of Ham" (verse 6). They who cultivated the knowledges of spiritual things are the "sons of Cush;" and they who cultivated the knowledges of celestial things are the "sons of Raamah" (verse 7).
AC 1133. Those treated of who have external worship in which are interior evils and falsities, "Nimrod" being such worship (verses 8, 9). The evils in such worship (verse 10). The falsities in such worship (verses 11, 12).
AC 1134. Concerning those who form for themselves new kinds of worship out of memory-knowledges by means of reasonings (verses 13, 14); and concerning those who make mere memory-knowledge of the knowledges of faith (verse 14).
AC 1135. Concerning external worship without internal, which is "Canaan," and the derivations of this worship (verses 15 to 18); and its extension (verses 19, 20).
AC 1136. Concerning internal worship, which is "Shem," and its extension even to the second Ancient Church (verse 21). Concerning internal worship and its derivations, which being from charity, are derivations of wisdom, of intelligence, of memory-knowledge, and of knowledges, which are signified by the "nations" (verses 22 to 24).
AC 1137. Concerning a certain church which arose in Syria, instituted by Eber, which is to be called the second Ancient Church, the internal worship of which is "Peleg," the external "Joktan" (verse 25). Its rituals are the nations named in verses 26 to 29. The extension of this church (verse 30).
AC 1138. That there were different kinds of worship in the Ancient Church, in accordance with the genius of each nation (verses 31, 32).
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