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Genesis 10

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1 Dette er Noas Sønner, Sem, Kam og Jafets Slægtebog. Efter Vandfloden fødtes der dem Sønner.

2 Jafets Sønner: Gomer, Magog. Madaj, Javan, Tubal, Mesjek og Tiras.

3 Gomers Sønner: Asjkenaz, ifaf og Togarma.

4 Javans Sønner: Elisja, Tarsis. Kittæerne og odosboerne;

5 fra dem nedstammer de fjerne Strandes Folk. Det var Jafets Sønner i deres Lande, hver med sit Tungemål, efter deres Slægter og i deres Folkeslag.

6 Kams Sønner: Kusj, Mlizrajim, Put og Hana'an.

7 Kusj's Sønner: Seba, Havila, Sabta, a'ma og Sabteka. a'mas Sønner: Saba og Dedan.

8 Og Kusj avlede Nimrod, som var den første Storhersker på Jorden.

9 Han var en vældig Jæger for HE ENs Øjne; derfor siger man: "En vældig Jæget for HE ENs Øjne som Nimrod."

10 Fra først af omfattede hans ige Babel, Erelk, Akkad og Kalne i Sinear;

11 fra dette Land drog han til Assyrien og byggede Nineve, ehobot- Ir, Kela

12 og esen mellem Nineve og Kela, det er den store By.

13 Mizrajim avlede Luderne,Anamerne, Lehaberne, Naftuherne,

14 Patruserne, Kasluherne, fra hvem Filisterne udgik, og Kaftorerne.

15 Kana'an avlede Zidon, hans førstefødte, Het,

16 Jebusiterne, Amoriterne, Girgasjiterne,

17 Hivviterne, Arkiterne, Siniterne,

18 Arvaditerne, Zemariterne og Hamatiterne; men senere bredte Kana'anæernes Slægter sig,

19 så at Kana'anæernes Område strakte sig fra Zidon i etning af Gerar indtil Gaza, i etning af Sodoma, Gomorra, Adma,og Zebojim indtil Lasja.

20 Det var Kams Sønner efter deres Slægter og Tungemål i deres Lande og Folk.

21 Men også Sem, alle Ebersønnernes Fader, Jafets ældste Broder, fødtes der Sønner.

22 Sems Sønner: Elam, Assur, Arpaksjad, Lud og Aram.

23 Arams Sønner: Uz, Hul, Geter og Masj.

24 Arpaksjad avlede Sjela; Sjela avlede Eber;

25 Eber fødtes der to Sønner; den ene hed Peleg, thi på hans Tid adsplittedes Jordens Befolkning, og hans Broder hed Joktan.

26 Joktan avlede Almodad, Sjelef, Hazarmavet, Jera,

27 Hadoram, Uzal, Dikla,

28 Obal, Abimael, Saba,

29 Ofir, Havila og Jobab. Alle disse var Joktans Sønner,

30 og deres Bosteder strækker sig fra Mesja i etning af Sefar, Østens Bjerge.

31 Det var Sems Sønner efter deres Slægter og Tungemål i deres Lande og Folk.

32 Det var Noas Sønners Slægter efter deres Nedstamning, i deres Folk; fra dem nedstammer Folkene, som efter Vandfloden bredte sig på Jorden.

   


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2504. 'And he sojourned in Gerar' means consequent instruction in the spiritual things of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'sojourning' as receiving instruction, dealt with in 1463, 2025, and from the meaning of 'Gerar' as the spiritual entity of faith. Gerar is mentioned in several places in Genesis, as in Chapter 10:19; 26:1, 6, 17, 20, 26, and in those places it means faith, the reason being that Gerar was in Philistia, and 'Philistia' means knowledge of the cognitions of faith, see 1197, 1198. Gerar was also the place where the king of the Philistines used to live. Consequently 'Gerar' means faith itself, 1209, and 'the king of Gerar' the truth itself of faith, for 'a king' in the internal sense is truth, 1672, 2015, 2069. Thus 'Abimelech' who is the subject in what follows means the doctrine of faith.

[2] In general there are intellectual things of faith, rational things of faith, and factual things of faith. In relation to one another they accordingly pass from more interior to more exterior. The inmost things of faith are called intellectual; those which pass down from them or from there are the rational things of faith; and those in turn which pass down from these are the factual things of faith. They are interrelated, to use the language of the learned, as prior to posterior, or what amounts to the same, as superior to inferior, that is, as more interior to more exterior. It does indeed seem to man as though the factual degree of faith is first and that the rational then arises from that, and after this the intellectual from that, for the reason that this is the way a human being develops from childhood onwards. But in fact the intellectual is constantly flowing; into the rational, and the rational into the factual, though man is not directly conscious of it. In childhood the influx is obscure; in adult years it is more noticeable; and when at length the individual has been regenerated it is quite manifest. Once he is regenerate this order is quite apparent, and still more fully so in the next life, see 1495. All of these things, distinguished as described into separate degrees and existing in relation to one another in the order shown, are called spiritual. The spiritual things of faith constitute all truths that stem from good, that is, from a celestial origin. Whatever derives from the celestial is one of the spiritual things of faith.

  
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