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1 Mose 1

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1 Im Anfang schuf Gott die Himmel und die Erde.

2 Und die Erde war wüst und leer, und Finsternis war über der Tiefe; und der Geist Gottes schwebte über den Wassern.

3 Und Gott sprach: Es werde Licht! und es ward Licht.

4 Und Gott sah das Licht, daß es gut war; und Gott schied das Licht von der Finsternis.

5 Und Gott nannte das Licht Tag, und die Finsternis nannte er Nacht. Und es ward Abend und es ward Morgen: erster Tag.

6 Und Gott sprach: Es werde eine Ausdehnung inmitten der Wasser, und sie scheide die Wasser von den Wassern!

7 Und Gott machte die Ausdehnung und schied die Wasser, welche unterhalb der Ausdehnung, von den Wassern, die oberhalb der Ausdehnung sind. Und es ward also.

8 Und Gott nannte die Ausdehnung Himmel. Und es ward Abend und es ward Morgen: zweiter Tag.

9 Und Gott sprach: Es sammeln sich die Wasser unterhalb des Himmels an einen Ort, und es werde sichtbar das Trockene! Und es ward also.

10 Und Gott nannte das Trockene Erde, und die Sammlung der Wasser nannte er Meere. Und Gott sah, daß es gut war.

11 Und Gott sprach: Die Erde lasse Gras hervorsprossen, Kraut, das Samen hervorbringe, Fruchtbäume, die Frucht tragen nach ihrer Art, in welcher ihr Same sei auf der Erde! Und es ward also.

12 Und die Erde brachte Gras hervor, Kraut, das Samen hervorbringt nach seiner Art, und Bäume, die Frucht tragen, in welcher ihr Same ist nach ihrer Art. Und Gott sah, daß es gut war.

13 Und es ward Abend und es ward Morgen: dritter Tag.

14 Und Gott sprach: Es werden Lichter an der Ausdehnung des Himmels, um den Tag von der Nacht zu scheiden, und sie seien zu Zeichen und zur Bestimmung von Zeiten und Tagen und Jahren;

15 und sie seien zu Lichtern an der Ausdehnung des Himmels, um auf die Erde zu leuchten! Und es ward also.

16 Und Gott machte die zwei großen Lichter: das große Licht zur Beherrschung des Tages, und das kleine Licht zur Beherrschung der Nacht, und die Sterne.

17 Und Gott setzte sie an die Ausdehnung des Himmels, um auf die Erde zu leuchten,

18 und um zu herrschen am Tage und in der Nacht und das Licht von der Finsternis zu scheiden. Und Gott sah, daß es gut war.

19 Und es ward Abend und es ward Morgen: vierter Tag.

20 Und Gott sprach: Es wimmeln die Wasser vom Gewimmel lebendiger Wesen, und Gevögel fliege über der Erde angesichts der Ausdehnung des Himmels!

21 Und Gott schuf die großen Seeungeheuer und jedes sich regende, lebendige Wesen, wovon die Wasser wimmeln, nach ihrer Art, und alles geflügelte Gevögel nach seiner Art. Und Gott sah, daß es gut war.

22 Und Gott segnete sie und sprach: Seid fruchtbar und mehret euch und füllet die Wasser in den Meeren, und das Gevögel mehre sich auf der Erde!

23 Und es ward Abend und es ward Morgen: fünfter Tag.

24 Und Gott sprach: Die Erde bringe hervor lebendige Wesen nach ihrer Art: Vieh und Gewürm und Getier der Erde nach seiner Art! Und es ward also.

25 Und Gott machte das Getier der Erde nach seiner Art, und das Vieh nach seiner Art, und alles, was sich auf dem Erdboden regt, nach seiner Art. Und Gott sah, daß es gut war.

26 Und Gott sprach: Lasset uns Menschen machen in unserem Bilde, nach unserem Gleichnis; und sie sollen herrschen über die Fische des Meeres und über das Gevögel des Himmels und über das Vieh und über die ganze Erde und über alles Gewürm, das sich auf der Erde regt!

27 Und Gott schuf den Menschen in seinem Bilde, im Bilde Gottes schuf er ihn; Mann und Weib schuf er sie.

28 Und Gott segnete sie, und Gott sprach zu ihnen: Seid fruchtbar und mehret euch und füllet die Erde und machet sie euch untertan; und herrschet über die Fische des Meeres und über das Gevögel des Himmels und über alles Getier, das sich auf der Erde regt!

29 Und Gott sprach: Siehe, ich habe euch gegeben alles samenbringende Kraut, das auf der Fläche der ganzen Erde ist, und jeden Baum, an welchem samenbringende Baumfrucht ist: es soll euch zur Speise sein;

30 und allem Getier der Erde und allem Gevögel des Himmels und allem, was sich auf der Erde regt, in welchem eine lebendige Seele ist, habe ich alles grüne Kraut zur Speise gegeben.

31 Und es ward also. Und Gott sah alles, was er gemacht hatte, und siehe, es war sehr gut. Und es ward Abend und es ward Morgen: der sechste Tag.

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24. Verse 6 And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let there be a distinguishing of the waters from the waters.

After the Spirit of God, which is the Lord's mercy, has brought out into the daylight cognitions of truth and good, and has shed the light of dawn to reveal that the Lord does exist, and that He is good itself and truth itself, and that no good or truth exists except from the Lord, a distinction is at that point made between the internal man and the external man, and so between cognitions which reside with the internal man and the facts which belong to the external man. The internal man is called 'an expanse, and the cognitions residing with the internal man are called 'the waters above the expanse', while the facts belonging to the external man are called 'the waters below the expanse'.

[2] Until his regeneration starts a person is not aware of even the existence of the internal man, let alone the identity of the internal man. Submerged in bodily and worldly concerns he imagines there is no difference between the two. Furthermore he has submerged in those same concerns the things that belong to the internal man and has made one thorough obscurity out of things that are distinct and separate. For this reason it is first said, 'Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters', and then, 'Let there be a distinguishing of the waters from the waters', and not a distinguishing of the waters. But this is followed immediately by the statement, Verses 7-8, And God made the expanse and He made a distinction between the waters that were under the expanse and the waters that were above the expanse; and it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven.

[3] The second thing therefore that a person notices when being regenerated is that he is starting to become aware of the existence of the internal man, or that what reside in the internal man are goods and truths which are the Lord's alone. And since the external man during regeneration is such as still imagines that he is the source of the good deeds he performs, or of the truth he utters, and since such a person, by means of them, is led by the Lord to do good and to speak truth as if they were his own, therefore the identification of those under the expanse comes first, and the identification of those above the expanse follows. It is also a heavenly arcanum that the Lord uses those things that are man's own - both his illusions of the senses and his desires - to lead and direct him towards the things that are goods and truths. Every single movement of regeneration is accordingly a progression from evening to morning - from external man to internal, that is, from earth to heaven. This is why the expanse, or internal man, is now called 'heaven'.

  
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Die Bibel

 

Genesis 1

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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

8 God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

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