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1 那时,天下人的口音、言语都是样。

2 他们往东边迁移的时候,在示拿遇见一片平原,就在那里。

3 他们彼此商量:来罢!我们要作砖,把砖烧透了。他们就拿砖当石头,又拿漆当灰泥。

4 他们:来罢!我们建造一座城和一座顶通,为要传扬我们的名,免得我们分散在全上。

5 耶和华降临,要世人所建造的城和

6 耶和华:看哪,他们成为样的人民,都是样的言语,如今既作起这事来,以後他们所要作的事就没有不成就的了。

7 我们去,在那里变乱他们的口音,使他们的言语彼此不通。

8 於是耶和华使他们从那里分散在全上;他们就停工,不造那城了。

9 因为耶和华在那里变乱天下人的言语,使众人分散在全上,所以那城名巴别(就是变乱的意思)。

10 代记在下面。洪水以二年,岁生了亚法撒。

11 生亚法撒之又活了五年,并且生儿养女。

12 亚法撒活到三十五岁,生了沙拉。

13 亚法撒生沙拉之又活了年,并且生儿养女。

14 沙拉活到三十岁,生了希伯。

15 沙拉生希伯之又活了年,并且生儿养女。

16 希伯活到三十岁,生了法勒。

17 希伯生法勒之又活了三十年,并且生儿养女。

18 法勒活到三十岁,生了拉吴。

19 法勒生拉吴之又活了二年,并且生儿养女。

20 拉吴活到三十岁,生了西鹿。

21 拉吴生西鹿之又活了二年,并且生儿养女。

22 西鹿活到三十岁,生了拿鹤。

23 西鹿生拿鹤之又活了二年,并且生儿养女。

24 拿鹤活到二十岁,生了他拉。

25 拿鹤生他拉之又活了一一十九年,并且生儿养女。

26 他拉活到七十岁,生了亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰。

27 他拉的後代记在下面。他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰;哈兰生罗得。

28 哈兰在他的本迦勒底的吾珥,在他父亲他拉之先。

29 亚伯兰、拿鹤各娶了妻:亚伯兰的妻子名叫撒莱;拿鹤的妻子名叫密迦,是哈兰的女儿;哈兰是密迦和亦迦的父亲

30 撒莱不生育,没有孩子。

31 他拉带着他儿子亚伯兰和他孙子哈兰儿子罗得,并他儿妇亚伯兰的妻子撒莱,出了迦勒底的吾珥,要往迦南去;他们走到哈兰,就在那里。

32 他拉共活了二零五岁,就哈兰

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1356

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1356. That 'Terah' means idolatrous worship becomes clear from the derivatives mentioned from verse 20 down to this point. This second Ancient Church declined from a kind of internal worship, becoming adulterated as it did so until in the end it became idolatrous, as Churches usually do. They pass from internal things to external, ending up with mere externals when internal things have been erased. The fact that the same happened to this Church, even to the extent that a large part of them did not acknowledge Jehovah as God but worshipped other gods, is clear in Joshua,

Joshua said to all the people, Thus said Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old beyond the River, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods. Joshua 24:2.

Now fear Jehovah, and serve Him in sincerity and truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve Jehovah. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose this day whom you are to serve, whether the gods which your fathers served who were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites. Joshua 24:14-15.

From this it is quite evident that Terah, Abram, and Nahor were idolaters.

[2] The fact that Nahor was a nation in which idolatrous worship existed is clear also from Laban the Syrian, who dwelt in the city of Nahor and who worshipped the images or teraphim which Rachel carried away with her, Genesis 24:10; 31:19, 26, 32, 34. And the fact that Abraham had one god, Nahor another, and Terah their father yet another, is clear from Genesis 31:53. It is also explicitly stated in Moses that Jehovah was unknown to Abram,

I, Jehovah, appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Shaddai, and by My name Jehovah I was not known to them. Exodus 6:3.

From this it is evident how much this Church with this people declined into idolatrous worship, which is meant here by 'Terah'. And since Terah means that worship, so do Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

  
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