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Genèse 5

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1 C'est ici le dénombrement de la postérité d'Adam, depuis le jour que Dieu créa l'homme, [lequel] il fit à sa ressemblance.

2 Il les créa mâle et femelle, et les bénit, et il leur donna le nom d'homme, le jour qu'ils furent créés.

3 Et Adam vécut cent trente ans, et engendra [un fils] à sa ressemblance, selon son image, et le nomma Seth.

4 Et les jours d'Adam, après qu'il eut engendré Seth, furent huit cents ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.

5 Tout le temps donc qu'Adam vécut, fut neuf cent trente ans; puis il mourut.

6 Seth aussi vécut cent cinq ans, et engendra Enos.

7 Et Seth, après qu'il eut engendré Enos, vécut huit cent sept ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

8 Tout le temps donc que Seth vécut, fut neuf cent douze ans; puis il mourut.

9 Et Enos, ayant vécu quatre-vingt-dix ans, engendra Kénan.

10 Et Enos, après qu'il eut engendré Kénan, vécut huit cent quinze ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.

11 Tout le temps donc qu'Enos vécut, fut neuf cent cinq ans; puis il mourut.

12 Et Kénan ayant vécu soixante-dix ans, engendra Mahalaléel.

13 Et Kénan, après qu'il eut engendré Mahalaléel, vécut huit cent quarante ans ; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

14 Tout le temps donc que Kénan vécut, fut neuf cent dix ans; puis il mourut.

15 Et Mahalaléel vécut soixante-cinq ans; et il engendra Jéred.

16 Et Mahalaléel, après qu'il eut engendré Jéred, vécut huit cent trente ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.

17 Tout le temps donc que Mahalaléel vécut, fut huit cent quatre-vingt quinze ans; puis il mourut.

18 Et Jéred ayant vécu cent soixante-deux ans, engendra Hénoc.

19 Et Jéred, après avoir engendré Hénoc, vécut huit cents ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.

20 Tout le temps donc que Jéred vécut, fut neuf cent soixante-deux ans; puis il mourut.

21 Et Hénoc vécut soixante-cinq ans, et engendra Méthuséla.

22 Et Hénoc, après qu'il eut engendré Méthuséla, marcha avec Dieu trois cents ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

23 Tout le temps donc qu'Hénoc vécut, fut trois cent soixante-cinq ans.

24 Hénoc marcha avec Dieu; mais il ne [parut] plus, parce que Dieu le prit.

25 Et Méthuséla ayant vécu cent quatre-vingt sept ans, engendra Lémec.

26 Et Méthuséla, après qu'il eut engendré Lémec, vécut sept cent quatre-vingt-deux ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

27 Tout le temps donc que Méthuséla vécut, fut neuf cent soixante-neuf ans; puis il mourut.

28 Lémec aussi vécut cent quatre-vingt deux ans, et il engendra un fils.

29 Et il le nomma Noé, en disant : Celui-ci nous soulagera de notre œuvre, et du travail de nos mains, sur la terre que l'Eternel a maudite.

30 Et Lémec, après qu'il eut engendré Noé, vécut cinq cent quatre-vingt quinze ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

31 Tout le temps donc que Lémec vécut, fut sept cent soixante dix-sept ans; puis il mourut.

32 Et Noé, âgé de cinq cents ans, engendra Sem, Cam, et Japheth.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 668

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668. 'Sons' means truths and 'wives' goods. This also has been shown already at Chapter 5:4 where the phrase 'sons and daughters' is used. Here however it is 'sons and wives', for 'wives' are goods which have been joined to truths. Indeed no truth can ever be brought forth unless some good or delight exists for it to spring from. Within good and delight there is life, but not within truth apart from that which it derives from good and delight. It is from these that truth is given form and develops, even as faith, which is connected with truth, is given form by and develops out of love, which is connected with good. Truth is like light; there is no light apart from that which flows from the sun or flame. It is from these that light is given form. Truth is merely the form which good takes, and faith merely the form which love takes. The form that truth takes depends therefore on the character of its good, as does that of faith on that of its love or charity. This is the reason why 'wife' and 'wives who mean goods that have been joined to truths are meant at this point. This also is why in the next verse reference is made to pairs of all, male and female, entering the ark, for without goods joined to truths regeneration does not take place.

  
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Genesis 6

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1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

22 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.