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1 Silloin Jumala muisti Noaa ja kaikkia eläviä, ja kaikkea karjaa, kuin hänen kanssansa olivat arkissa, ja Jumala nosti tuulen maan päälle, ja vedet seisahtivat.

2 Ja syvyyden lähteet tukittiin, ja taivaan akkunat, ja sateet taivaasta asetettiin.

3 Ja vedet maan päältä enemmin ja enemmin juoksivat pois, ja vähenivät sadan ja viidenkymmenen päivän perästä.

4 Ja seitsemäntenätoistakymmenentenä päivänä, seitsemännessä kuukaudessa jäi arkki Araratin vuorelle.

5 Mutta vedet juoksivat pois, ja vähenivät hamaan kymmenenteen kuukauteen asti. Ensimäisnä päivänä kymmenentenä kuukautena näkyivät vuorten kukkulat.

6 Neljänkymmenen päivän perästä avasi Noa arkin akkunan, jonka hän tehnyt oli.

7 Ja antoi kaarneen lentää ulos, joka lensi kahtiapäin, siihen asti kuin vedet maan päältä kuivuivat.

8 Sitte lähetti hän kyhkyisen tyköänsä, koettelemaan, jos vedet olisivat juosseet pois maan päältä.

9 Koska ei kyhkyinen löytänyt kussa hän sai jalkansa levätä, palasi hän hänen tykönsä arkkiin: sillä vedet olivat vielä koko maan päällä, niin hän ojensi kätensä, otti hänen ja toi arkkiin.

10 Ja odotti vielä toiset seitsemän päivää, ja antoi taas kyhkyisen lentää arkista.

11 Se palasi hänen tykönsä, ehtoopuolella, ja katso, hän toi suussansa öljypuun lehden, jonka hän murtanut oli. Niin Noa ymmärsi vedet maan päältä juosseeksi pois.

12 Mutta hän odotti vielä seitsemän päivää, ja antoi kyhkyisen lentää ulos, joka ei enää palannut.

13 Ja kuudennella sadalla ja ensimäisellä ajastajalla (Noan ijästä) ensimäisnä päivänä ensimäisessä kuukaudessa, kuivuivat vedet maan päältä. Niin avasi Noa arkin katon, ja näki, ja katso, maa oli kuivunut.

14 Niin maa tuli peräti kuivaksi seitsemäntenäkolmattakymmenentenä päivänä toisessa kuukaudessa.

15 Niin Jumala puhui Noalle sanoen:

16 Lähde arkista, sinä ja sinun emäntäs, ja sinun poikas, ja sinun poikais emännät sinun kanssas.

17 Kaikkinaiset eläimet, jotka sinun tykönäs ovat, kaikkinaisesta lihasta, sekä linnuista että karjasta, ja kaikista matelevaisista maan päällä, johdata ne ulos kanssas: ja kävelköön ne maan päällä, ja olkoon hedelmälliset ja lisääntyköön maan päällä.

18 Niin Noa meni ulos poikinensa, ja emäntinensä, ja poikainsa emännät hänen kanssansa.

19 Kaikkinaiset eläimet, kaikkinaiset matelevaiset, kaikkinaiset linnnut, ja kaikki kuin maalla matelevat: läksivät arkista, jokainen kaltaisensa tykö.

20 Ja Noa rakensi Herralle alttarin: ja otti kaikkinaisesta puhtaasta karjasta, ja kaikkinaisista puhtaista linnuista, ja uhrasi polttouhria alttarilla.

21 Ja Herra haisti lepytyshajun, ja Herra sanoi sydämessänsä: en minä silleen enää maata kiroo ihmisen tähden: vaikka ihmisen sydämen aivoitus on paha hamasta lapsuudesta: ja en minä silleen enää lyö kaikkia kuin elävät, niinkuin minä tehnyt olen.

22 Niin kauvan kuin maa seisoo, ei pidä kylväminen ja niittäminen, vilu ja helle, suvi ja talvi, päivä ja lakkaaman.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #862

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862. That 'it happened at the end of forty days' means the duration of the former state, and the beginning of the one that followed, is clear from the meaning of 'forty', see 730, where, the subject being temptation, the phrase 'forty days and forty nights' was used, which meant the duration of temptation. Here, since the subject is the state following temptation, 'forty days' is mentioned but not forty nights. The reason is that charity now starts to appear, which in the Word is compared to the day and is called the day. Faith however which precedes but has not yet been so joined to charity is compared to the night and is called the night, as in Genesis 1:16, and elsewhere in the Word. Faith is also called 'the night' in the Word because it receives its light from charity, just as the moon does from the sun. Faith is therefore also compared to the moon and is called the moon; and love or charity is compared to the sun and is called the sun. 'Forty days', or the duration of time meant by them, refers both to the things that precede and to those that follow; hence the statement 'at the end of forty days', which accordingly means both the duration of the previous state, and the beginning of the one being described now. This then begins the description of the second state following temptation of the member of this Church.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #730

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730. 'Forty days and nights' means the duration of temptation. This is quite clear from the Word of the Lord. The reason 'forty' means the duration of temptation is the fact that the Lord allowed Himself to be tempted for forty days, as is clear in Matthew 4:1-2; Luke 4:2; Mark 1:13. And because every single requirement in the Jewish Church and in all other representative Churches before the Lord's Coming was merely a type and shadow of Him, so too were forty days and nights. In general they represented and meant all temptation, and in particular however long its duration. And since anyone undergoing temptation experiences vastation of all things that belong to the proprium and of things that are bodily - for things of the proprium and those that are bodily have to die, doing so indeed through conflict and temptation, before he is reborn a new man, that is, before he becomes spiritual and celestial - 'forty days and nights' therefore also means the duration of vastation. The same applies here where the subject is both the temptation of the member of the new Church called Noah and also the destruction of those who lived before the Flood.

[2] That 'forty' means not only the duration of temptation but also of vastation, whether long or short, is clear in Ezekiel,

You shall lie on your right side and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, a day for each year I assign you. Ezekiel 4:6.

This stands for the duration of the vastation of the Jewish Church and also for a representation of the Lord's temptation, for it is said that he was 'to bear the iniquity of the house of Judah'. In the same prophet,

I will make the land of Egypt waste places, an utter desolation. The foot of man will not pass through it, and the foot of beast will not pass through it, and it will be uninhabited for forty years. And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands, and her cities in the midst of devastated cities will be a lonely place for forty years. Ezekiel 29:10-11.

This too stands for the duration of vastation and desolation. Here the meaning in the internal sense is not forty years but solely the desolation of faith in general, whether within a short or a long period of time. In John,

The court outside the Temple, leave that out and do not measure it, for it has been given over to the nations 1 who will trample over the holy city for forty-two months. Revelation 11:2.

[3] And in the same author,

The beast was given a mouth uttering great things and blasphemies, and it was given power to act for forty-two months. Revelation 13:5.

This stands for the duration of vastation, for a period of forty-two months is not meant at all, as anyone may see. In these quotations the number is in fact forty-two, but this has the same meaning as forty. It is obtained from 'seven days' meaning the finish of vastation and a new beginning, and from 'six' meaning labour because of the six days of labour or conflict. Consequently seven multiplied by six, which produces the number 'forty-two', means the duration of vastation and the duration of temptation, that is, the labour and conflict of someone who is to be regenerated, which period of time involves holiness. The round number forty however has been adopted instead of the less round number forty-two, as is clear in these quotations from the Book of Revelation.

[4] The people of Israel's being led about in the wilderness for forty years before being brought into the land of Canaan in a similar way represented and meant the duration of temptation, and also the duration of vastation - the duration of temptation by the fact that they were subsequently brought into the Holy Land, and the duration of vastation by the fact that, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, all who were more than twenty years old when they left Egypt died in the wilderness. And temptations are also meant by the things they grumbled about so often, and vastations by the plagues and destruction they suffered so often. The fact that temptations and vastations are meant will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown in their proper places. They are referred to in Moses as follows,

You shall remember all the way that Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness to afflict you, to tempt you, to know what is in your heart, whether you will keep His commandments or not. Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 16.

Moses' forty days and forty nights on Mount Sinai similarly mean the duration of temptation - that is, the temptation of the Lord - as is clear in Moses,

He was on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights, eating no bread, drinking no water, pleading for the people not to be destroyed. Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 18, Deuteronomy 9:25-end; Deuteronomy 10:10.

[See also]Numbers 14:33-35; 32:8-14

[5] The reason 'forty days' means the duration of temptation is, as has been stated, that the Lord allowed Himself to be tempted by the devil for forty days. Consequently in the days when all things were representatives of the Lord, whenever the idea of temptation existed with angels, that idea was represented in the world of spirits by such things as exist in the world - as happens with all angelic ideas when they come down into the world of spirits and manifest themselves there in a representative fashion. The same accordingly applies to the number forty, for the Lord was to be tempted for forty days. With the Lord, and consequently in the angelic heaven, the future and the present are one and the same, for what is future is already present, or what is to take place has taken place. This is the origin of the representation of temptations and also of vastations by forty in the representative Church. But these matters cannot as yet be understood satisfactorily because people do not know about the influx of the angelic heaven into the world of spirits or the nature of it.

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