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Genèse 9

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1 Et Dieu bénit Noé, et ses fils, et leur dit : Foisonnez, et multipliez, et remplissez la terre.

2 Et que toutes les bêtes de la terre, tous les oiseaux des cieux, avec tout ce qui se meut sur la terre, et tous les poissons de la mer vous craignent et vous redoutent; ils sont mis entre vos mains.

3 Tout ce qui se meut et qui a vie, vous sera pour viande; je vous ai donné toutes ces choses comme l'herbe verte.

4 Toutefois vous ne mangerez point de chair avec son âme, [c'est-à-dire], son sang.

5 Et certes je redemanderai votre sang, [le sang] de vos âmes, je le redemanderai de la main de toutes les bêtes, et de la main de l'homme, même de la main de chacun de ses frères je redemanderai l'âme de l'homme.

6 Celui qui aura répandu le sang de l'homme dans l'homme, son sang sera répandu; car Dieu a fait l'homme à son image.

7 Vous donc, foisonnez, multipliez, croissez [en toute abondance] sur la terre, et multipliez sur elle.

8 Dieu parla aussi à Noé et à ses fils qui étaient avec lui, en disant :

9 Et quant à moi, voici, j'établis mon alliance avec vous, et avec votre race après vous.

10 Et avec tout animal vivant qui est avec vous, tant des oiseaux, que du bétail, et de toutes les bêtes de la terre qui sont avec vous, de toutes celles qui sont sorties de l'arche, jusqu'à toutes les bêtes de la terre.

11 J'établis donc mon alliance avec vous, et nulle chair ne sera plus exterminée par les eaux du déluge, et il n'y aura plus de déluge pour détruire la terre.

12 Puis Dieu dit : C'est ici le signe que je donne de l'alliance entre moi et vous, et entre toute créature vivante qui est avec vous, pour durer à toujours;

13 Je mettrai mon arc en la nuée, et il sera pour signe de l'alliance entre moi et la terre.

14 Et quand il arrivera que j'aurai couvert la terre de nuées, l'arc paraîtra dans la nuée.

15 Et je me souviendrai de mon alliance qui est entre moi et vous, entre tout animal qui vit en quelque chair que ce soit; et les eaux ne feront plus de déluge pour détruire toute chair.

16 L'arc donc sera dans la nuée, et je le regarderai, afin qu'il me souvienne de l'alliance perpétuelle entre Dieu et tout animal vivant, en quelque chair qui soit sur la terre.

17 Dieu donc dit à Noé : C'est là le signe de l'alliance que j'ai établie entre moi et toute chair qui est sur la terre.

18 Et les fils de Noé qui sortirent de l'arche, furent Sem, Cam, et Japheth. Et Cam fut père de Canaan.

19 Ce sont là les trois fils de Noé, desquels toute la terre fut peuplée.

20 Et Noé, laboureur de la terre, commença de planter la vigne.

21 Et il en but du vin, et s'enivra, et il se découvrit au milieu de sa tente.

22 Et Cam, le père de Canaan, ayant vu la nudité de son père, le déclara dehors à ses deux frères.

23 Et Sem et Japheth prirent un manteau qu'ils mirent sur leurs deux épaules, et marchant en arrière, ils couvrirent la nudité de leur père; et leurs visages [étaient tournés] en arrière, de sorte qu'ils ne virent point la nudité de leur père.

24 Et Noé réveillé de son vin, sut ce que son fils le plus petit lui avait fait.

25 C'est pourquoi il dit : Maudit soit Canaan; il sera serviteur des serviteurs de ses frères.

26 Il dit aussi : Béni soit l'Eternel, Dieu de Sem; et que Canaan leur soit fait serviteur.

27 Que Dieu attire en douceur Japheth, et que [Japheth] loge dans les tabernacles de Sem; et que Canaan leur soit fait serviteur.

28 Et Noé vécut après le déluge trois cent cinquante ans.

29 Tout le temps donc que Noé vécut, fut neuf cent cinquante ans; puis il mourut.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1010

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1010. That 'shedding man's blood in man' means destroying charity, and 'in man' means residing with man, is clear from the meaning of 'blood', dealt with already, as the holiness of charity, and from the fact that the expression 'man's blood in man' is used, that is, his internal life, which does not reside in him but with him. For the Lord's life is charity, which does not reside within man, since man is filthy and unholy, but with him. That 'shedding blood' is doing violence to charity is clear from places in the Word, including those quoted already in 374, 376, where it has been shown that violence done to charity is called 'blood'.

[2] In the sense of the letter 'shedding blood' is killing, but in the internal sense it is hating the neighbour, as the Lord teaches in Matthew,

You have heard that it was said to the men of old, You shall not kill, and whoever skills will be liable to judgement. But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without cause will be liable to judgement. Matthew 5:21-22.

Here 'being angry' means departing from charity - about which see what has been said already in 357 - and consequently hatred. Someone who hates not only has no charity but also does violence to it, that is, he 'sheds blood'. It is in hatred that murder lies, as is quite clear from the fact that the one desire of him who hates another is to have him killed. And but for the external restraints holding him back he would kill him. This is why killing 'a brother' and 'shedding his blood' is hatred. And being hatred, it is present in every idea he has against him. It is similar with profanation. As has been stated, a person who profanes the Word not only hates the truth but also annihilates it or slays it. This is quite clear in the next life from people who have been guilty of profanation. Although in outward appearance they have been honest, wise, and devout during their lifetime, in the next life they hold in deadly hatred the Lord, and also all goods that stem from love, and all truths of faith, the reason being that these are contrary to all their inner hatred, robbery, and adultery which they have covered over with a display of holiness while adulterating those goods and truths to their own advantage.

[3] That profanation is meant by 'blood' is clear from the following in Moses, in addition to the places quoted already in 374,

Anyone from the house of Israel who slays an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slays it outside the camp, and does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as a gift to Jehovah before the dwelling-place of Jehovah, blood will be imputed to that man; he has shed blood, and that man will be cut off from among his people. Leviticus 17:3-4.

Sacrificing anywhere else than on the altar at the Tent of Meeting represented profanation, for 'offering sacrifice' was holy, but offering it 'in the camp' or 'outside the camp' was unholy.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 374

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374. That 'the voice of blood' 1 means violence done to charity is clear from many places in the Word where 'voice' stands for everything that accuses, and 'blood' for all sin, especially hatred. For anyone who hates his brother murders him in his own heart, as the Lord teaches,

You have heard that it was said to the men of old, You shall not kill, and whoever kills will be liable to judgement. But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without cause will be liable to judgement. Whoever indeed says to his brother, Raca! will be liable to the Sanhedrin. And whoever says You fool! will be liable to the Gehenna of fire. Matthew 5:21-22.

These sayings denote degrees of hatred. Hatred is contrary to charity; and though a person does not actually commit murder, the intention to do so is still there, and by whatever possible method. It is external restraints alone which prevent murder actually being committed. And this is why all hatred is called blood, as in Jeremiah,

How well you direct Your way in the quest for love! Yes, in your skirts the blood of needy innocent souls is found. Jeremiah 2:33-34.

[2] And since hatred is meant by blood, so is every kind of wickedness, for hatred is the source of all wickedness, as in Hosea,

Perjuring, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they commit robbery, and blood' has followed on blood. 1 Therefore the land will mourn and every inhabitant will anguish. Hosea 4:2-3.

And in Ezekiel,

Will you judge the city of blood' and declare to her all her abominations? A City that sheds blood' in the midst of her. By your blood which you have shed you have become guilty. Ezekiel 22:2-4, 6, 9.

This is referring to the lack of compassion. In the same prophet,

The land is full of the judgement of blood, 1 and the city is full of violence. Ezekiel 7:23.

And in Jeremiah,

For the sins of the prophets of Jerusalem, the iniquities of her priests who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous, they wander blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood. Lamentations 4:13-14.

In Isaiah,

When the Lord will have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and wiped away from its midst the blood 1 of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. Isaiah 4:4.

In the same prophet,

Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Isaiah 59:3.

In Ezekiel,

I passed by you and saw you weltering in your blood, 1 and I said to you, Live in your blood 1 I indeed said to you, Live in your blood. 1 Ezekiel 16:6, 22.

This refers to the abominations of Jerusalem, which are called 'blood' 1 . Lack of compassion, and hatred, in the last times a real so described as blood in Revelation 16:3-4. The plural 'bloods' is used because all forms of iniquity and abomination well up out of hatred, just as all forms of good and holiness do out of love. Anyone therefore who hates his neighbour would murder him if he could, and he does do so in whatever way he can. That is to say, he does him violence, which is strictly the meaning here of 'voice of blood'. 1

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1. literally, bloods

  
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