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1 Da nu menneskene begynte å bli tallrike på jorden, og de fikk døtre,

2 Guds sønner at menneskenes døtre var vakre; og de tok sig hustruer, hvem de hadde lyst til.

3 Da sa Herren: Min Ånd skal ikke dømme blandt menneskene til evig tid; for sin villfarelses skyld er det* kjød, og dets dager skal være hundre og tyve år. / {* mennesket.}

4 I de dager var kjempene på jorden og likeså siden, da Guds sønner gikk inn til menneskenes døtre, og de fødte dem barn; det er de veldige fra fordums tid, de navnkundige.

5 Og Herren så at menneskets ondskap var stor på jorden, og at alle dets hjertes tanker og påfund bare var onde den hele dag.

6 Da angret Herren at han hadde skapt mennesket på jorden, og han var full av sorg i sitt hjerte.

7 Og Herren sa: Jeg vil utrydde menneskene som jeg har skapt, av jorden, både mennesker og fe og kryp og fuglene under himmelen; for jeg angrer at jeg har skapt dem.

8 Men Noah fant nåde for Herrens øine.

9 Dette er historien om Noah og hans ætt: Noah var en rettferdig og ulastelig mann blandt sine samtidige; Noah vandret med Gud.

10 Og Noah fikk tre sønner: Sem, Kam og Jafet.

11 Men jorden blev fordervet for Guds åsyn, og jorden blev full av urett.

12 Og Gud så på jorden, og se, den var fordervet; for alt kjød hadde fordervet sin ferd på jorden.

13 Da sa Gud til Noah: Jeg har satt mig fore å gjøre ende på alt kjød, for de har fylt jorden med urett; og nu vil jeg ødelegge både dem og jorden.

14 Gjør dig en ark av gofertre, gjør kammer i arken og stryk den innvendig og utvendig med bek!

15 Således skal du gjøre den: Arken skal være tre hundre alen lang, femti alen bred, og tretti alen høi.

16 Øverst på arken skal du gjøre en glugg som når en alen ned på veggen, og døren på arken skal du sette på den ene side; du skal bygge den i tre stokkverk, et nederste, et mellemste og et øverste, med kammer i hvert stokkverk.

17 Og se, jeg vil la en vannflom komme over jorden til å ødelegge alt kjød under himmelen som det er livsånde i; alt som er på jorden, skal omkomme.

18 Men jeg vil oprette min pakt med dig, og du skal gå inn i arken, du og dine sønner og din hustru og dine sønners hustruer med dig.

19 Og av alt som lever, av alt kjød, skal du ta et par av hvert slag med inn i arken for å holde dem i live med dig; han og hun skal det være.

20 Av alle slags fugler og av alle slags fe og av alle slags kryp på jorden skal par for par komme inn til dig for å holdes i live.

21 Og du skal ta til dig av allslags mat som etes, og samle det hos dig, sa det kan være til føde for dig og for dem.

22 Og Noah gjorde så; han gjorde i ett og alt som Gud hadde befalt ham.

   

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10441. 'And repent [of the evil] against Your people' means having mercy on them. This is clear from the meaning of 'repenting', when it has reference to Jehovah, as having mercy. The reason why 'repenting' means having mercy is that Jehovah does not ever repent, since He foresees and makes provision for all things from eternity. Repentance is a reaction that can take place only in someone who has no knowledge of the future and who sees, as events unfold, that he has made a mistake. Nevertheless the Word speaks of Jehovah's reacting in that kind of way because the sense of the letter consists of ideas of things as man sees them. For it is intended for very simple people and for young children, who at first go no further than that sense. Also young children and very simple people's interests lie in the most external things, from which they start out and in which after this their inner thoughts and feelings terminate. For this reason the Word in the letter must be understood differently by those who have become wiser.

[2] The situation with the Word is similar to that with the human being. Everything within him terminates in flesh and bones; these are the container of everything there. Unless they existed in place of a foundation or support a person could not remain in being; for he would have no final level in which all things within him could terminate and on which they could rest. The situation is similar with the Word. This must have a final level in which everything within it terminates; that final level is the sense of the letter, and the inner things are the heavenly matters belonging to the internal sense. From all this it is now evident that the way things appear to man is the reason why Jehovah is said to repent, when in fact He does not repent.

[3] The fact that Jehovah is said to repent is clear from a large number of places in the Word, such as the following: In Jeremiah,

If [a nation] does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit it. Jeremiah 18:10.

In the same prophet,

It may be that they will listen and every man turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I am thinking to do to them on account of the wickedness of their doings. Jeremiah 26:3.

In Ezekiel,

When My anger is accomplished and I make My wrath rest on them, I will repent. Ezekiel 5:13.

In Amos,

Jehovah repented. It shall not happen, He said. Amos 7:3, 6.

In Moses,

Jehovah will judge His people, and repent over 1 His servants. Deuteronomy 32:36.

In Jonah,

The king of Nineveh said, Who knows, God may turn and be moved to repentance 2 , and turn from the heat of His anger, and we may not perish! And they turned from their evil way; therefore God repented of the evil which He had said He would do to them, so that He did not do it. Jonah 3:9-10.

In the Book of Genesis,

Jehovah repented that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Genesis 6:6.

In the first Book of Samuel,

I have repented that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me. 1 Samuel 15:11, 35.

[4] From these places which speak of Jehovah's having repented, when in fact He cannot repent since He knows all things before He does them, it is evident that 'repenting' means having mercy. The fact that Jehovah never repents is also clear from the Word, as in Moses,

Jehovah 3 is not a man (vir), that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will not act? Or has He spoken, and will not carry it out? Numbers 23:19.

And in the first Book of Samuel,

The Invincible One of Israel does not lie, nor does He repent, for He is not a man (homo), that He should repent. 1 Samuel 15:29.

The fact that when Jehovah is said to repent His mercy is meant is clear in Joel,

Jehovah is gracious and merciful, long-suffering, and great in compassion, and One who is accustomed to repent of evil. Joel 2:13.

And in Jonah,

God is gracious and merciful, long-suffering, and great in kindness, and One who repents of evil. Jonah 4:2.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. has compassion on

2. literally, be led by repentance

3. The Hebrew at this point uses the word meaning God.

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