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Ruth 1

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1 Du temps des juges, il y eut une famine dans le pays. Un homme de Bethléhem de Juda partit, avec sa femme et ses deux fils, pour faire un séjour dans le pays de Moab.

2 Le nom de cet homme était Elimélec, celui de sa femme Naomi, et ses deux fils s'appelaient Machlon et Kiljon; ils étaient Ephratiens, de Bethléhem de Juda. Arrivés au pays de Moab, ils y fixèrent leur demeure.

3 Elimélec, mari de Naomi, mourut, et elle resta avec ses deux fils.

4 Ils prirent des femmes Moabites, dont l'une se nommait Orpa, et l'autre Ruth, et ils habitèrent là environ dix ans.

5 Machlon et Kiljon moururent aussi tous les deux, et Naomi resta privée de ses deux fils et de son mari.

6 Puis elle se leva, elle et ses belles-filles, afin de quitter le pays de Moab, car elle apprit au pays de Moab que l'Eternel avait visité son peuple et lui avait donné du pain.

7 Elle sortit du lieu qu'elle habitait, accompagnée de ses deux belles-filles, et elle se mit en route pour retourner dans le pays de Juda.

8 Naomi dit alors à ses deux belles-filles: Allez, retournez chacune à la maison de sa mère! Que l'Eternel use de bonté envers vous, comme vous l'avez fait envers ceux qui sont morts et envers moi!

9 Que l'Eternel vous fasse trouver à chacune du repos dans la maison d'un mari! Et elle les baisa. Elles élevèrent la voix, et pleurèrent;

10 et elles lui dirent: Non, nous irons avec toi vers ton peuple.

11 Naomi, dit: Retournez, mes filles! Pourquoi viendriez-vous avec moi? Ai-je encore dans mon sein des fils qui puissent devenir vos maris?

12 Retournez, mes filles, allez! Je suis trop vieille pour me remarier. Et quand je dirais: J'ai de l'espérance; quand cette nuit même je serais avec un mari, et que j'enfanterais des fils,

13 attendriez-vous pour cela qu'ils eussent grandi, refuseriez-vous pour cela de vous marier? Non, mes filles! car à cause de vous je suis dans une grande affliction de ce que la main de l'Eternel s'est étendue contre moi.

14 Et elles élevèrent la voix, et pleurèrent encore. Orpa baisa sa belle-mère, mais Ruth s'attacha à elle.

15 Naomi dit à Ruth: Voici, ta belle-soeur est retournée vers son peuple et vers ses dieux; retourne, comme ta belle-soeur.

16 Ruth répondit: Ne me presse pas de te laisser, de retourner loin de toi! Où tu iras j'irai, où tu demeureras je demeurerai; ton peuple sera mon peuple, et ton Dieu sera mon Dieu;

17 où tu mourras je mourrai, et j'y serai enterrée. Que l'Eternel me traite dans toute sa rigueur, si autre chose que la mort vient à me séparer de toi!

18 Naomi, la voyant décidée à aller avec elle, cessa ses instances.

19 Elles firent ensemble le voyage jusqu'à leur arrivée à Bethléhem. Et lorsqu'elles entrèrent dans Bethléhem, toute la ville fut émue à cause d'elles, et les femmes disaient: Est-ce là Naomi?

20 Elle leur dit: Ne m'appelez pas Naomi; appelez-moi Mara, car le Tout-Puissant m'a remplie d'amertume.

21 J'étais dans l'abondance à mon départ, et l'Eternel me ramène les mains vides. Pourquoi m'appelleriez-vous Naomi, après que l'Eternel s'est prononcé contre moi, et que le Tout-Puissant m'a affligée?

22 Ainsi revinrent du pays de Moab Naomi et sa belle-fille, Ruth la Moabite. Elles arrivèrent à Bethléhem au commencement de la moisson des orges.

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Shaddai

  

'Shaddai,' as in Genesis 43:14, signifies temptation, and consolation after temptation. This is because the ancients called the one and only God by various names according to the various things from Him. As they believed also that temptations are from Him, they called God on this occasion 'Shaddai,' but they did not mean another God, but the only God regarding temptations. When the ancient church declined, they began to worship as many gods as there were names of the one and only God. They also added several more. This custom was eventually so prevalent, that every family had its own god, and he was distinguished altogether from the rest which were worshipped by other families. The family of Terah, which Abraham came from, worshipped Shaddai for its God. So not only Abraham, but also Jacob, acknowledged Him as their God, and also in the land of Canaan. This was permitted for them, in case they should be forced from their religion. No one is forced away from what he regards as holy. As the ancients understood 'Shaddai' to be Jehovah himself or the Lord, as He was called when they underwent temptations, therefore Jehovah or the Lord took this name, when appearing to Abraham, as in Genesis 17:1, and appearing to Jacob, as in Genesis 35:11. 'Shaddai' does not mean temptation only, but also consolation, because all spiritual temptations are followed by consolation. When anyone in the other life suffers hardships from evil spirits, he is received by the angels and is brought into a state of comfort by delight agreeable to his disposition and temper.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 5628)

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Genesis 17

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1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

12 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

13 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.