Arcana Coelestia #701
701. Genesis 7
1. And Jehovah said to Noah, Enter, you and all your house, into the ark, for I have seen you to be a righteous man before Me in this generation.
2. Of every clean beast you shall take for yourself seven and seven of each, male and its mate, 1 and of beasts that are not clean, pairs of each, male and its mate. 1
3. Also of the birds of the air 2 seven and seven of each, male and female, to keep their seed alive over the face 3 of the whole earth.
4. For in seven days' time I am making it rain over the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out everything 4 I have made from over the face 3 of the ground.
5. And Noah did according to all that Jehovah commanded him.
6. And Noah was a son of six hundred years, and a flood of waters came to be over the earth.
7. And Noah went into the ark, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, from before the waters of the flood.
8. Of the clean beast, and of the beast that is not clean, and of the bird, and of everything that creeps over the ground.
9. Two and two they went to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10. And there were seven days, and the waters of the flood were over the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of the years of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were split open, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
12. And there was rain over the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13. On that very day Noah went in, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife, 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 over the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every flying thing, and every winged thing.
15. And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two from all flesh in which there was the spirit of life. 5
16. And those who were going in, male and female of all flesh, went in, as God had commanded him; and Jehovah closed the way behind him.
17. And the flood was forty days over the earth, and the waters increased and raised the ark and lifted it above the earth.
18. And the waters grew stronger and increased greatly over the earth; and the ark went over the face 3 of the waters.
19. And the waters grew stronger and stronger over the earth, and all the high mountains beneath the whole sky were covered.
20. For fifteen cubits upwards the waters prevailed and covered the mountains.
21. And all flesh creeping over the earth breathed its last - birds, beasts, wild animals, and every creeping thing that creeps over the earth; and every man.
22. Everything which had the breath of the spirit of life 5 in its nostrils, everything that was on the dry land, died.
23. And He wiped out every being 4 which was on the face 3 of the ground, from man to beasts, to creeping things, and to birds of the air; 2 and they were wiped out from the earth; and Noah alone remained and that which was with him in the ark.
24. And the waters became more and more over the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
CONTENTS
Here the subject in general is the preparation of the Church. Just as the subject previously was the things of the understanding, so here verses 1-5 deal with those of its will.
Fußnoten:
1. literally, man and his wife
2. literally, bird of the heavens (or the skies)
3. literally, over the faces
4. literally, every substance
5. literally, of lives
Genesis 8
1
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
2
The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3
The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
4
The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
5
The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6
It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
7
and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8
He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
9
but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
10
He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
11
The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.
12
He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
13
It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
14
In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
16
"Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
17
Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
18
Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
19
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
20
Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
22
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
