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Genesis 11

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1 Hele Menneskeheden havde eet Tungemål og samme Sprog.

2 Da de nu drog østerpå, traf de på en Dal i Sinear, og der slog de sig ned.

3 Da sagde de til hverandre: "Kom, lad os stryge Teglsten og brænde dem godt!" De brugte nemlig Tegl som Sten og Jordbeg som Kalk.

4 Derpå sagde de: "Kom, lad os bygge os en By og et Tårn, hvis Top når til Himmelen, og skabe os et Navn, for at vi ikke skal spredes ud over hele Jorden!"

5 Men HE EN steg ned for at se Byen og Tårnet, som Menneskebørnene byggede,

6 og han sagde: "Se, de er eet Folk og har alle eet Tungemål; og når de nu først er begyndt således, er intet, som de sætter sig for, umuligt for dem;

7 lad os derfor stige ned og forvirre deres Tungemål der, så de ikke forstår hverandres Tungemål!"

8 Da spredte HE EN dem fra det Sted ud over hele Jorden, og de opgav at bygge Byen.

9 Derfor kaldte man den Babel, thi der forvirrede HE EN al Jordens Tungemål, og derfra spredte HE EN dem ud over hele Jorden.

10 Dette er Sems Slægtebog. Da Sem var 100 År gammel, avlede han Arpaksjad, to År efter Vandfloden;

11 og efter at Sem havde avlet Arpaksjad, levede han 500 År og avlede Sønner og Døtre.

12 Da Atpaksjad havde levet 35 År, avlede han Sjela;

13 og efter at Arpaksjad havde avlet Sjela, levede han 403 År og avlede Sønner og Døtre.

14 Da Sjela havde levet 30 År, avlede han Eber;

15 og efter at Sjela havde avlet Eber, levede han 403 År og avlede Sønner og Døtre.

16 Da Eber havde levet 34 År, avlede han Peleg;

17 og efter at Eber havde avlet Peleg, levede han 430 År og avlede Sønner og Døtre.

18 Da Peleg havde levet 30 År, avlede han e'u;

19 og efter at Peleg havde avlet e'u, levede han 209 År og avlede Sønner og Døtre.

20 Da e'u havde levet 32 År, avlede han Serug;

21 og efter at e'u havde avlet Serug, levede han 207 År og avlede Sønner og Døtre.

22 Da Serug havde levet 30 År, avlede han Nakor;

23 og efter at Serug havde avlet Nakor, levede han 200 År og avlede Sønner og Døtre.

24 Da Nakor havde levet 29 År, avlede han Tara;

25 og efter at Nakor havde avlet Tara, levede han 119 År og avlede Sønner og Døtre.

26 Da Tara havde levet 70 År, avlede han Abram, Nakor og Haran.

27 Dette er Taras Slægtebog. Tara avlede Abram, Nako og Haran. Haran avlede Lot.

28 Haran døde i sin Fader Taras Levetid i sin Hjemstavn i Ur Kasdim.

29 Abram og Nakor tog sig Hustruer; Abrams Hustru hed Saraj, Nakors Milka, en Datter af Haran, Milkas og Jiskas Fader.

30 Men Saraj var ufrugtbar og havde ingen Børn.

31 Tara tog sin Søn Abram, sin Sønnesøn Lot, Harans Søn, og sin Sønnekone Saraj, hans Søn Abrams Hustru, og førte dem fra Ur Kasdim for at begive sig til Kana'ans Land; men da de kom til Karan, slog de sig ned der.

32 Taras Levetid var 205 År; og Tara døde i Karan.

   


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922. 'He took from every clean beast, and from every clean bird' means goods that stem from charity, and the truths of faith. This has been shown already; 'beast' means goods that stem from charity, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 'bird' the truths of faith, 40, 776. Burnt offerings were made from cattle, from lambs and goats, and from turtle doves and young pigeons, Leviticus 1:2-17; Numbers 15:2-15; 28:1-end. These were clean beasts, each one of them meaning some particular heavenly quality. And because they meant these things in the Ancient Church, and in subsequent Churches represented them, it is clear that burnt offerings and sacrifices were nothing else than representatives that go with internal worship, and that when they had been divorced from internal worship they became idolatrous. This any mentally normal person can see, for what is an altar but merely something made of stone? And what is a burnt offering and a sacrifice but the slaughtering of an animal? For worship to be Divine it has to represent some heavenly quality which the worshippers know and acknowledge and from which they worship the One they are representing.

[2] Nobody except the person who does not wish to understand anything at all about the Lord can be ignorant of the fact that these things were representatives of the Lord. It is the internal things, namely charity and faith deriving from charity, through which the One who is being represented has to be seen, acknowledged, and believed, as is quite clear in the Prophets, for example in Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah Zebaoth, the God of Israel, Add your burnt offerings on to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. I did not speak with your fathers and I did not command them on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt on the matters of burnt offering and sacrifice. But this matter I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God. Jeremiah 7:21-23.

Hearing or obeying His voice is obeying the law, the whole of which focuses on the one command that men should love God above everything else and their neighbour as themselves, for on these depend the Law and the Prophets, Matthew 22:37-40; 7:12. In David,

O Jehovah, sacrifice and offering You have not desired; burnt offering and sin-sacrifice You host not sought. I have delighted to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart. 1 Psalms 40:6, 8.

[3] In Samuel, who said to Saul,

Has Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22.

What obeying His voice involves is apparent in Micah,

Shall I come before Jehovah with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with tens of thousands of rivers of oil? He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does Jehovah require of you but to carry out judgement and the love of mercy, and to humble yourself by walking with your God. Micah 6:6-8.

These are the things that burnt offerings and sacrifices of clean beasts and birds mean. In Amos,

Though you offer Me your burnt offerings and gifts, I will not accept them, and the peace offering of your fatted ones I will not look upon. Let judgement flow like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Amos 5:22, 24.

'Judgement' means truth, and 'righteousness' good. Both stem from charity and are the burnt offerings and sacrifices of the internal man. In Hosea,

I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6.

From all these quotations the nature of sacrifices and burnt offerings when charity and faith are not present is clear. It is also clear from them that because 'clean beasts and clean birds' meant the goods that stem from charity and faith they also represented them.

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Numbers 23:1-7

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1 Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

3 Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.

4 God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar."

5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7 He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.