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1 พระเจ้าทรงระลึกถึงโนอาห์ บรรดาสัตว์ที่มีชีวิตและสัตว์ใช้งานทั้งปวงที่อยู่กับท่านในนาวา และพระเจ้าทรงทำให้ลมพัดมาเหนือแผ่นดินโลก และน้ำทั้งปวงก็ลดลง

2 น้ำพุทั้งหลายที่อยู่ใต้บาดาลและช่องฟ้าทั้งปวงก็ปิด และฝนที่ตกจากฟ้าก็หยุด

3 น้ำก็ค่อยๆลดลงจากแผ่นดินโลก และล่วงไปร้อยห้าสิบวันแล้วน้ำก็ลดลง

4 เดือนที่เจ็ดวันที่สิบเจ็ดนาวาก็ค้างอยู่บนเทือกเขาอารารัต

5 น้ำก็ค่อยๆลดลงจนถึงเดือนที่สิบ ในเดือนที่สิบ ณ วันที่หนึ่งของเดือนนั้น ยอดภูเขาต่างๆโผล่ขึ้นมา

6 ต่อจากนั้นอีกสี่สิบวัน โนอาห์ก็เปิดช่องในนาวาที่ท่านได้ทำไว้นั้น

7 ท่านปล่อยกาตัวหนึ่ง ซึ่งมันบินไปมาจนกระทั้งน้ำลดแห้งจากแผ่นดินโลก

8 ท่านจึงปล่อยนกเขาตัวหนึ่งด้วยเพื่อจะรู้ว่าน้ำได้ลดลงจากพื้นแผ่นดินโลกหรือยัง

9 แต่นกเขาไม่พบที่ที่จะจับอาศัยอยู่ได้เพราะน้ำยังท่วมทั่วพื้นแผ่นดินโลกอยู่ มันจึงได้กลับมาหาท่านในนาวา ดังนั้นท่านจึงยื่นมือออกไปจับนกเขาเข้ามาไว้ด้วยกันในนาวา

10 ท่านคอยอยู่อีกเจ็ดวัน ท่านจึงปล่อยนกเขาไปจากนาวาอีกครั้งหนึ่ง

11 ในเวลาเย็นนกเขาก็กลับมายังท่าน ดูเถิด มันคาบใบมะกอกเทศเขียวสดมา ดังนั้นโนอาห์จึงรู้ว่า น้ำได้ลดลงจากแผ่นดินโลกแล้ว

12 ท่านคอยอยู่อีกเจ็ดวัน และปล่อยนกเขาออกไป แล้วมันไม่กลับมาหาท่านอีกเลย

13 ต่อมาปีที่หกร้อยเอ็ดเดือนที่หนึ่งวันที่หนึ่งของเดือนนั้นน้ำก็แห้งจากแผ่นดินโลก โนอาห์ก็เปิดหลังคาของนาวาและมองดู ดูเถิด พื้นแผ่นดินแห้งแล้ว

14 ในเดือนที่สองวันที่ยี่สิบเจ็ดของเดือนนั้นแผ่นดินโลกก็แห้งสนิท

15 พระเจ้าตรัสแก่โนอาห์ว่า

16 "จงออกไปจากนาวา ทั้งเจ้า ภรรยา บุตรชาย และบุตรสะใภ้ทั้งหลายของเจ้า

17 จงพาสัตว์ที่มีชีวิตทั้งปวงที่อยู่ด้วยกันกับเจ้า คือบรรดาเนื้อหนัง ทั้งนก สัตว์ใช้งาน และสัตว์เลื้อยคลานทั้งปวงที่คลานไปมาบนแผ่นดินโลกให้ออกมา เพื่อพวกมันจะทวีมากขึ้นบนแผ่นดินโลก และมีลูกดกทวีมากขึ้นบนแผ่นดินโลก"

18 โนอาห์จึงออกไป พร้อมทั้งบุตรชาย ภรรยา และบุตรสะใภ้ทั้งหลายที่อยู่กับท่าน

19 สัตว์ป่าทั้งปวง บรรดาสัตว์เลื้อยคลาน นกทั้งปวง และทุกสิ่งที่คลานไปมาบนแผ่นดินโลกตามชนิดของพวกมันออกไปจากนาวา

20 โนอาห์ก็สร้างแท่นบูชาแด่พระเยโฮวาห์ และเอาบรรดาสัตว์ที่สะอาดและบรรดานกที่สะอาดถวายเป็นเครื่องเผาบูชาที่แท่นนั้น

21 พระเยโฮวาห์ได้ดมกลิ่นหอมหวาน และพระเยโฮวาห์ทรงดำริในพระทัยว่า "เราจะไม่สาปแช่งแผ่นดินอีกเพราะเหตุมนุษย์ ด้วยว่าเจตนาในใจของเขาล้วนแต่ชั่วร้ายตั้งแต่เด็กมา เราจะไม่ประหารสิ่งทั้งปวงที่มีชีวิตอีกเหมือนอย่างที่เราได้กระทำแล้วนั้น

22 ในขณะที่โลกยังดำรงอยู่นั้น จะมีฤดูหว่านฤดูเก็บเกี่ยว เวลาเย็นเวลาร้อน ฤดูร้อนฤดูหนาว กลางวันกลางคืนต่อไป"

   


Many thanks to Philip Pope for the permission to use his 2003 translation of the English King James Version Bible into Thai. Here's a link to the mission's website: www.thaipope.org

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755. That 'the six hundredth year, the second month, and the seventeenth day' means the second state of temptation follows from what has been stated so far, for verse 6 down to this present verse 11 has dealt with the first state of temptation, which was temptation involving things of his understanding. Now however the second state is dealt with, namely temptation involving things of the will. This is the reason why his age is repeated. Previously it was said that 'he was a son of six hundred years', here that the Flood took place in 'the six hundredth year of his life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day'. No one would ever imagine that Noah's age, worked out to the exact year, month, and day, is used to mean a state of temptation involving things of the will. Yet, as has been stated, this was how the most ancient people spoke and wrote. And they found their chief delight in being able to work out periods of time and names and then to organize them into a semblance of history. It was in this that their wisdom consisted.

[2] It was shown at verse 6 above however that 'six hundred years' means nothing other than an initial state of temptation. Here similarly 'six hundred years' is mentioned. But so that it might mean a second state of temptation, months and days have been added - two months in fact, or rather 'in the second month', which means conflict itself, as becomes clear from the meaning of the number two given already at verse 6 of this chapter. As has been shown and may be seen there, two has the same meaning as six, that is, labour and conflict and also dispersion. The number seventeen however means not only the onset of temptation but also the end of temptation, the reason being that it is the sum of the numbers seven and ten. When this number means the onset of temptation it then entails 'seven days' or a week, which means the onset of temptation, as shown already at verse 4 of this chapter. But when it means the end of temptation, as it does later on in 8:4, seven is then a holy number to which ten, meaning remnants, has been added; for without remnants nobody is able to be regenerated.

[3] That seventeen means the onset of temptation is clear in Jeremiah's being commanded to buy the field from Hanamel his cousin who was in Anathoth, and to weigh out seventeen shekels of silver, Jeremiah 32:9. What comes after that in this chapter of the prophet shows that this number also means their captivity in Babylon, which represents the temptation of people who have faith and the devastation of those who have not. Indeed it represents the onset of temptation and at the same time the end of temptation, which is liberation. That captivity is mentioned in Jeremiah 32:36, and the liberation in Verse 37 onwards. Such a number, like every other word that is used, would never have appeared in this prophet if it did not embody arcana.

[4] That seventeen means the onset of temptation becomes clear also from the age of Joseph, who was seventeen years old when he was sent off to his brothers and was sold into Egypt, Genesis 37:2. His being sold into Egypt represents the same kinds of things, as will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown in that chapter. There the representative historical events did take place as described; here however they are made-up historical events carrying a spiritual meaning, which did not actually take place as described in the sense of the letter. Nevertheless the former embody arcana of heaven, right down to every word, as is the case here. This is bound to seem strange, for when any historical event occurs, true or made-up, the mind (animus) is confined to the letter from which it cannot extricate itself. Hence the conviction that nothing else is meant or represented.

[5] Yet it may become clear to anyone who is intelligent that some internal sense exists which has the life of the Word in it, but not in the letter, which devoid of the internal sense is dead. Without the internal sense what would any historical description be but history as found in any secular author? And so what would be the use of knowing Noah's exact age, or the month and day when the Flood took place, if it did not embody a heavenly arcanum? And who cannot see that 'all the fountains of the great deep were split open, and the floodgates of heaven were opened' is a prophetic utterance, as is much else besides?

  
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Genesis 29

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1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.

3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.

4 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."

5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

7 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."

8 They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."

9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

15 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

17 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

21 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

23 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.

34 She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.