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Бытие 6

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1 Когда люди начали умножаться на землј, и родились у нихъ дочери: то случилось,

2 что сыны Божіи, видя дочерей человјческихъ, какъ онј прекрасны, брали ихъ себј въ жены, которую кто выбралъ.

3 И сказалъ Іегова: не вјчно Духу Моему быть пренебрегаему человјками; въ заблужденіи своемъ они суть плоть; да будутъ же дни ихъ сто двадцать лјтъ.

4 Въ то время были на землј исполины; особенно же съ того времени, какъ сыны Божіи стали совокупляться съ дочерьми человјческими, и онј стали рождать имъ. Сіи суть сильные, издревле славные люди.

5 И увидјлъ Іегова, что умножилось развращеніе человјковъ на землј, и что всякой образъ помышленій сердца ихъ одно зло во всю жизнь.

6 И раскаялся Іегова, что создалъ человјка на землј и возскорбјлъ въ сердцј Своемъ.

7 И сказалъ Іегова: истреблю съ лица земли человјковъ сотворенныхъ Мною, и не только человјковъ, но и скотъ и гадовъ и птицъ небесныхъ, ибо Я раскаялся, что создалъ ихъ.

8 Ной же обрјлъ благодать предъ очами Іеговы.

9 Вотъ родословіе Ноя. Ной былъ человјкъ праведный и непорочный въ свое врема; съ Богомъ ходилъ Ной.

10 Ной родилъ трехъ сыновъ: Сима, Хама и Іафета.

11 Но земля растлилась предъ лицемъ Божіимъ, и наполнилась земля злодјяніями.

12 Богъ воззрјлъ на землю; и се, она растлјна: ибо всякая плоть на землј совратились съ пути своего.

13 И сказалъ Богъ Ною: конецъ всјхъ людей пришелъ предъ лице Мое: ибо земля наполнилась отъ нихъ злодјяніями. И се, Я истреблю ихъ съ земли.

14 Сдјлай ты себј ковчегъ изъ дерева гоферъ; отдјленія сдјлай въ ковчегј, и осмоли его смолою внутри и снаружи.

15 Сдјлай же его такъ: длина ковчега триста локтей; широта его пятьдесять локтей, а высота его тридцать локтей.

16 Сдјлай отверстіе въ ковчегъ, и въ локоть сведи его вверху: дверь въ ковчегј сдјлай съ бока его: устрой въ немъ нижнее, второе и третье жилье.

17 И се, Я наведу на землю потопъ водный, чтобы истребить всякую плоть, въ которой есть духъ жизни, подъ небесами; все, что есть на землј, лишится жизни.

18 Но съ тобою Я поставлю завјтъ Мой: и войдешь въ ковчегъ ты, и сыновья твои, и жена твоя, и жены сыновъ твоихъ съ тобою.

19 Введи также въ ковчегъ изъ всјхъ животныхъ, оть всякой плоти по парј, чтобы они остались съ тобою въ живыхъ; мужскаго пола и женскаго должны они быть.

20 Изъ птицъ по роду ихъ, и изъ скота по роду его, и изъ всјхъ пресмыкающихся по землј по роду ихъ, изъ всјхъ по парј войдутъ къ тебј, чтобы остались живы.

21 Ты же возьми себј всякой пищи, какою питаются, и заготовь у себя; и будете питаться ею, ты и они.

22 И сдјлалъ Ной все, какъ повелјлъ ему Богъ, такъ и сдјлалъ.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 637

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637. That “I will destroy them with the earth” signified that together with the church the human race would perish, is on this account: If the Lord’s church should be entirely extinguished on the earth, the human race could by no means exist, but one and all would perish. The church, as before said, is as the heart: so long as the heart lives, the neighboring viscera and members can live; but as soon as the heart dies, they one and all die also. The Lord’s church on earth is as the heart, whence the human race, even that part of it which is outside the church, has life. The reason is quite unknown to anyone, but in order that something of it may be known, it may be stated that the whole human race on earth is as a body with its parts, wherein the church is as the heart; and that unless there were a church with which as with a heart the Lord might be united through heaven and the world of spirits, there would be disjunction; and if there were disjunction of the human race from the Lord, it would instantly perish. This is the reason why from the first creation of man there has always been some church, and whenever the church has begun to perish it has yet remained with some.

[2] This was also the reason of the Lord’s coming into the world. If in His Divine mercy He had not come, the whole human race on this earth would have perished, for the church was then at its last extremity, and there was scarcely any good and truth surviving. The reason why the human race cannot live unless it is conjoined with the Lord through heaven and the world of spirits, is that in himself regarded man is much viler than the brutes. If left to himself he would rush into the ruin of himself and of all things; for he desires nothing else than what would be for the destruction of himself and of all. His order should be that one should love another as himself; but now everyone loves himself more than others, and thus hates all others. But with brute animals the case is quite different: their order is that according to which they live. Thus they live quite according to the order in which they are, and man entirely contrary to his order. Therefore unless the Lord should have compassion on him, and conjoin him with Himself through angels, he could not live a single moment; but this he does not know.

  
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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.