Bible

 

Genesis 7

Studie

   

1 And Jehovah said to Noaḥ, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for I have seen thee, that thou art just before Me in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take for thee seven by seven, a man and his wife*; and of the beast that is not clean, this by twos, a man and his wife.

3 Of the fowl of the heavens also seven by seven, male and female, to cause seed to live on the faces of all the earth.

4 For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every being* that I have made will I wipe·​·away from on the faces of the ground.

5 And Noaḥ did according·​·to all that Jehovah commanded him.

6 And Noaḥ was a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters was on the earth.

7 And Noaḥ came·​·in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, from before the waters of the flood.

8 Of the clean beast, and of the beast that is not clean, and of the fowl, and of all that creeps on the ground,

9 there came·​·in two and two to Noaḥ into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noaḥ.

10 And it was, after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

11 In the year six hundred of the years of the life of Noaḥ, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the fountains of the great abyss were split·​·open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

12 And the shower was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In this same day came Noaḥ, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noaḥ, and the wife of Noaḥ, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark.

14 They, and every wild·​·animal according·​·to its kind, and every beast according·​·to its kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the land according·​·to its kind; and every fowl according·​·to its kind, every bird*, every winged thing.

15 And they came·​·in to Noaḥ into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the spirit of lives

16 And they who came·​·in, came·​·in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut behind him.

17 And the flood was forty days on the earth, and the waters multiplied, and bore·​·up the ark, and it was lifted·​·high from on the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed, and were multiplied exceedingly on the earth; and the ark went on the faces of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed very exceedingly on the earth, and all the lofty mountains were covered that were under all the heavens.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and covered the mountains.

21 And all flesh expired that creeps on the land, as·​·to the fowl, and as·​·to the beast, and as·​·to the wild·​·animal, and as·​·to every crawling thing that crawls on the land; and all man.

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of lives, of all that was in the dry land, died.

23 And He wiped·​·away every being that was on the faces of the ground, from man even·​·to beast, even·​·to creeping thing, and even·​·to the fowl of the heavens; and they were wiped·​·away from the land; and Noaḥ only was·​·left, and that which was with him in the ark.

24 And the waters prevailed on the earth fifty and a hundred days.

   


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Arcana Coelestia # 734

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 10837  
  

734. In what has gone before, verses 13-end of the previous chapter dealt with truths of the understanding which the member of the Church called Noah was supplied with by the Lord prior to his being regenerated, while verses 1-5 of this chapter deal after that with goods of the will, which were also conferred on him by the Lord. And because both are dealt with it looks like a repetition. Now however verses 6-11 deal with the temptation of that man, the present verse in particular dealing with the first state and so with the onset of temptation. And anyone is able to see that further repetition occurs, for in this verse it is said that 'Noah was a son of six hundred years when the flood came to be over the earth' but in verse 11 that it occurred 'in the six hundredth year of his life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth day'. So too with verse 7 in which it is said that 'Noah entered into the ark with his sons and their wives' and the similar statement in verse 13 later on. Also verses 8-9, in which it is said that the beasts entered into the ark to Noah' and the similar statements in verses 14-16. From these considerations it is clear that this verse is in like manner a repetition of matters that have appeared already. What more can anyone see who keeps to the sense of the letter alone except the repetition of some historical event? But here as in other places not one tiny word is in any way superfluous or meaningless, for it is the Lord's Word. There is not any repetition therefore unless it is used to mean something different from before. In fact here, as previously, it is initial temptation, which involves things of his understanding, that is meant, and after that temptation of him as regards things of his will. With anyone who is to be regenerated these temptations are consecutive, for being tempted as regards things of the understanding is altogether different from being tempted as regards those of the will. Temptation as regards things of the understanding is mild, whereas temptation as regards those of the will is severe.

  
/ 10837  
  

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