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Genèse 6

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1 Or il arriva que quand les hommes eurent commencé à se multiplier sur la terre, et qu'ils eurent engendré des filles,

2 Les fils de Dieu voyant que les filles des hommes étaient belles, prirent pour leurs femmes de toutes celles qu'ils choisirent.

3 Et l'Eternel dit : Mon Esprit ne plaidera point à toujours avec les hommes, car aussi ils ne sont que chair; mais leurs jours seront six vingts ans.

4 Il y avait en ce temps-là des géants sur la terre, lors, dis-je, que les fils de Dieu se furent joints avec les filles des hommes, et qu'elles leur eurent fait des enfants. Ce sont ces puissants hommes qui de tout temps ont été des gens de renom.

5 Et l'Eternel voyant que la malice des hommes était très-grande sur la terre, et que toute l'imagination des pensées de leur cœur n'était que mal en tout temps;

6 Se repentit d'avoir fait l'homme sur la terre, et en eut du déplaisir dans son cœur.

7 Et l'Eternel dit : J'exterminerai de dessus la terre les hommes que j'ai créés, depuis les hommes jusqu'au bétail, jusqu'aux reptiles, et même jusqu'aux oiseaux des cieux; car je me repens de les avoir faits.

8 Mais Noé trouva grâce devant l'Eternel.

9 Ce sont ici les générations de Noé. Noé fut un homme juste [et] intègre en son temps, marchant avec Dieu.

10 Et Noé engendra trois fils, Sem, Cam, et Japheth.

11 Et la terre était corrompue devant Dieu, et remplie d'extorsion.

12 Dieu donc regarda la terre, et voici elle était corrompue; car toute chair avait corrompu sa voie sur la terre.

13 Et Dieu dit à Noé : La fin de toute chair est venue devant moi; car ils ont rempli la terre d'extorsion, et voici, je les détruirai avec la terre.

14 Fais-toi une arche de bois de gopher; tu feras l'arche par loges, et la calfeutreras de bitume par dedans et par dehors.

15 Et tu la feras en cette manière; la longueur de l'arche sera de trois cents coudées; sa largeur de cinquante coudées, et sa hauteur de trente coudées.

16 Tu donneras du jour à l'arche, et feras son comble d'une coudée [de hauteur], et tu mettras la porte de l'arche à son coté, et tu la feras avec un bas, un second, et un troisième étage.

17 Et voici, je ferai venir un déluge d'eau sur la terre, pour détruire toute chair en laquelle il y a esprit de vie sous les cieux; et tout ce qui est sur la terre expirera.

18 Mais j'établirai mon alliance avec toi; et tu entreras dans l'arche toi et tes fils, et ta femme, et les femmes de tes fils avec toi.

19 Et de tout ce qui a vie d'entre toute chair tu en feras entrer deux [de chaque espèce] dans l'arche, pour les conserver en vie avec toi, savoir le mâle et la femelle;

20 Des oiseaux, selon leur espèce des bêtes à quatre pieds, selon leur espèce, [et] de tous reptiles, selon leur espèce. Il y entrera de tous par paires avec toi, afin que tu les conserves en vie.

21 Prends aussi avec toi de toute chose qu'on mange, et la retire à toi, afin qu'elle serve pour ta nourriture, et pour celle des animaux.

22 Et Noé fit selon tout ce que Dieu lui avait commandé; il le fit ainsi.

   

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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.