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1 Kaj Adam ekkonis Evan, sian edzinon, kaj sxi gravedigxis, kaj sxi naskis Kainon; kaj sxi diris: Mi akiris homon de la Eternulo.

2 Kaj plue sxi naskis lian fraton Habel. Kaj Habel farigxis sxafpasxtisto, kaj Kain farigxis terlaboristo.

3 Kaj post ia tempo farigxis, ke Kain alportis el la fruktoj de la tero donacoferon al la Eternulo.

4 Kaj Habel ankaux alportis el la unuenaskitoj de siaj sxafoj kaj el ilia graso. Kaj la Eternulo atentis Habelon kaj lian donacoferon;

5 sed Kainon kaj lian donacoferon Li ne atentis. Kaj Kain tre ekkoleris, kaj lia vizagxo klinigxis.

6 Kaj la Eternulo diris al Kain: Kial vi koleras? kaj kial klinigxis via vizagxo?

7 Ja se vi agos bone, vi estos forta; sed se vi agos malbone, la peko kusxos cxe la pordo, kaj vin gxi aspiros, sed vi regu super gxi.

8 Kaj Kain parolis kun sia frato Habel; kaj kiam ili estis sur la kampo, Kain levigxis kontraux sian fraton Habel kaj mortigis lin.

9 Kaj la Eternulo diris al Kain: Kie estas via frato Habel? Kaj tiu diris: Mi ne scias; cxu mi estas gardisto de mia frato?

10 Kaj Li diris: Kion vi faris? la vocxo de la sango de via frato krias al Mi de la tero.

11 Kaj nun estu malbenita de sur la tero, kiu malfermis sian busxon, por preni la sangon de via frato el via mano.

12 Kiam vi prilaboros la teron, gxi ne plu donos al vi sian forton; vaganto kaj forkuranto vi estos sur la tero.

13 Kaj Kain diris al la Eternulo: Pli granda estas mia puno, ol kiom mi povos elporti.

14 Jen Vi forpelas min hodiaux de sur la tero, kaj mi devas min kasxi de antaux Via vizagxo, kaj mi estos vaganto kaj forkuranto sur la tero, kaj iu ajn, kiu min renkontos, mortigos min.

15 Kaj la Eternulo diris al li: Sciu, ke al iu, kiu mortigos Kainon, estos vengxite sepoble. Kaj la Eternulo faris sur Kain signon, ke ne mortigu lin iu, kiu lin renkontos.

16 Kaj Kain foriris de antaux la Eternulo, kaj logxigxis en la lando Nod, oriente de Eden.

17 Kaj Kain ekkonis sian edzinon, kaj sxi gravedigxis, kaj sxi naskis HXanohxon. Kaj li konstruis urbon, kaj li donis al la urbo nomon laux la nomo de sia filo: HXanohx.

18 Kaj al HXanohx naskigxis Irad, kaj al Irad naskigxis Mehxujael, kaj al Mehxujael naskigxis Metusxael, kaj al Metusxael naskigxis Lemehx.

19 Kaj Lemehx prenis al si du edzinojn: unu havis la nomon Ada, kaj la dua havis la nomon Cila.

20 Kaj Ada naskis Jabalon; li estis la patro de tiuj, kiuj logxas en tendoj kaj pasxtas brutojn.

21 Kaj la nomo de lia frato estis Jubal; li estis la patro de cxiuj, kiuj ludas harpon kaj fluton.

22 Cila ankaux naskis Tubal-Kainon, forgxanton de diversaj majstrajxoj el kupro kaj fero. Kaj la fratino de Tubal-Kain estis Naama.

23 Kaj Lemehx diris al siaj edzinoj Ada kaj Cila:

24 Auxskultu mian vocxon, edzinoj de Lemehx, Atentu mian parolon! CXar viron mi mortigis por vundo al mi Kaj junulon por tubero al mi; Se sepoble estos vengxite por Kain, Por Lemehx estos sepdek-sepoble.

25 Kaj denove Adam ekkonis sian edzinon, kaj sxi naskis filon, kaj donis al li la nomon Set: CXar Dio metis al mi alian semon anstataux Habel, kiun mortigis Kain.

26 Kaj al Set ankaux naskigxis filo, kaj li donis al li la nomon Enosx. Tiam oni komencis alvokadi la nomon de la Eternulo.

   

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True Christian Religion # 279

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279. The third experience.

Seven years ago, when I was collecting the passages which Moses wrote drawing on the two books called The Wars of Jehovah and The Utterances (Numbers 21), some angels were present who told me that those books were the ancient Word; its historical parts are called The Wars of Jehovah, the prophetical parts The Utterances. They said that this Word was still preserved in heaven and was used by the ancients there, whose Word it had been when they were in the world. The ancients, among whom this Word is still in use in heaven, were in part from the land of Canaan and the neighbouring countries, for instance, Syria, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Chaldaea, Assyria, Egypt, Sidon, Tyre and Niniveh. The inhabitants of all these kingdoms had a representative form of worship, and thus a knowledge of correspondences. The wisdom of those times came from that knowledge, which endowed them with inward perception and communication with the heavens. Those who knew the correspondences of that Word were called wise and intelligent, and in later times soothsayers and sorcerers.

[2] But because that Word was full of the sort of correspondences which conveyed celestial and spiritual ideas distantly, so that many people began to falsify it, therefore by the Lord's Divine providence in course of time it vanished, and another Word was given written by correspondences not so distant; this was done through the prophets among the Children of Israel. This Word retains many place names, not only in the land of Canaan, but also in the adjacent parts of Asia; all of these meant matters concerning the church and its states. But these meanings were taken over from the ancient Word. That was the reason why Abram was ordered to go into that land, and his descendants through Jacob were brought into it.

[3] I am allowed to report this new piece of information about the ancient Word, which was in Asia before the Israelite Word existed. It is still preserved there among the peoples who live in Great Tartary. I have spoken with spirits and angels in the spiritual world who came from there. They said that they possess the Word, and have done so from ancient times; and they conduct their Divine worship in accordance with that Word. It is composed purely of correspondences. They said that it also contains the book of Jashar mentioned in Joshua (Joshua 10:12-13), and in the Second Book of Samuel (2 Samuel 1:17-18); they also have the books called The Wars of Jehovah and The Utterances, which are mentioned by Moses (Numbers 21:14-15, 27-30). When I read in their presence the words which Moses took from this source, they looked to see whether they were there, and they found them. This made it clear to me that they still have the ancient Word. During our conversation they mentioned that they worship Jehovah, some of them as an invisible God, and some as visible.

[4] They went on to say that they do not allow foreigners to enter their territory, except the Chinese, with whom they have peaceful relations, because the Chinese Emperor comes from there. 1 They added that they are so populous that they do not believe any region in all the world is more so. This too is plausible when one considers the wall so many miles long, which the Chinese in former times constructed as a defence against invasion by them.

Moreover I was told by angels that the first chapters of Genesis, dealing with creation, Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, their sons and descendants down to the flood, as well as Noah and his sons, are also found in that Word, and were copied from it by Moses. Angels and spirits from Great Tartary are to be seen in the southern quarter towards the east. They are separated from others by living on a higher level. They do not allow anyone from Christian countries to visit them, and if any do go up, they put them under guard to prevent them leaving. The reason for this isolation is that they possess a different Word.

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1. This may refer to the Yuan dynasty (13th-14th centuries) who were of Mongol origin; but perhaps the reference is to the non-Chinese Manchu dynasty who ruled China from 1644.

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

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Numbers 21

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1 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

2 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities."

3 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.

4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."

6 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

7 The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.

8 Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.

10 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.

11 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.

12 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.

13 From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,

15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."

16 From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."

17 Then sang Israel this song: "Spring up, well; sing to it:

18 the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles." From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah;

19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

22 "Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border."

23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.

24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

25 Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns.

26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

29 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.

30 We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba."

31 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

33 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

35 So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.