Arcana Coelestia # 599
599. Genesis 6:9-22
9. These are the generations (nativitates) of Noah. Noah was a righteous and blameless man (vir) among members of his own generation (generationes). And Noah walked with God.
10. And Noah beget three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11. And the earth 1 was corrupt before God, and the earth 1 was filled with violence.
12. And God saw the earth, 1 and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. 1
13. And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth' is filled with violence before their faces. And behold, I am destroying them together with the earth. 1
14. Make yourself an ark of planks of gopher; you shall make the ark with rooms and cover it 2 inside and out with bitumen.
15. And thus shall you make it: three hundred cubits the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.
16. You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit above; and you shall set the door of the ark in the side of it; lowest, second, and third storeys you shall make it.
17. And I, behold, am bringing a flood of waters over the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the spirit of life 3 from under the heavens; everything that is on earth will breathe its last.
18. And I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
19. And of every living creature of all flesh, pairs of all, you shall cause to enter the ark, to keep them alive with you; male and female they shall be.
20. Of birds according to their kinds, and of beasts according to their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Pairs of all shall come in to you to keep them alive.
21. And take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself, and it will be food for you and them.
22. And Noah did according to all that God commanded him; he did so.
CONTENTS
The subject is the state of the Church called Noah, before its regeneration.
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