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1 Mose 11

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1 Und die ganze Erde hatte eine Sprache und einerlei Worte.

2 Und es geschah, als sie nach Osten zogen, da fanden sie eine Ebene im Lande Sinear und wohnten daselbst.

3 Und sie sprachen einer zum anderen: Wohlan, laßt uns Ziegel streichen und hart brennen! Und der Ziegel diente ihnen als Stein, und das Erdharz diente ihnen als Mörtel.

4 Und sie sprachen: Wohlan, bauen wir uns eine Stadt und einen Turm, dessen Spitze an den Himmel reiche, und machen wir uns einen Namen, daß wir nicht zerstreut werden über die ganze Erde!

5 Und Jehova fuhr hernieder, die Stadt und den Turm zu sehen, welche die Menschenkinder bauten.

6 Und Jehova sprach: Siehe, sie sind ein Volk und haben alle eine Sprache, und dies haben sie angefangen zu tun; und nun wird ihnen nichts verwehrt werden, was sie zu tun ersinnen.

7 Wohlan, laßt uns herniederfahren und ihre Sprache daselbst verwirren, daß sie einer des anderen Sprache nicht verstehen!

8 Und Jehova zerstreute sie von dannen über die ganze Erde; und sie hörten auf, die Stadt zu bauen.

9 Darum gab man ihr den Namen Babel; denn daselbst verwirrte Jehova die Sprache der ganzen Erde, und von dannen zerstreute sie Jehova über die ganze Erde.

10 Dies sind die Geschlechter Sems: Sem war hundert Jahre alt und zeugte Arpaksad, zwei Jahre nach der Flut.

11 Und Sem lebte, nachdem er Arpaksad gezeugt hatte, fünfhundert Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter. -

12 Und Arpaksad lebte fünfunddreißig Jahre und zeugte Schelach.

13 Und Arpaksad lebte, nachdem er Schelach gezeugt hatte, vierhundertdrei Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter. -

14 Und Schelach lebte dreißig Jahre und zeugte Heber.

15 Und Schelach lebte, nachdem er Heber gezeugt hatte, vierhundertdrei Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter. -

16 Und Heber lebte vierunddreißig Jahre und zeugte Peleg.

17 Und Heber lebte, nachdem er Peleg gezeugt hatte, vierhundertdreißig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter. -

18 Und Peleg lebte dreißig Jahre und zeugte Reghu.

19 Und Peleg lebte, nachdem er Reghu gezeugt hatte, zweihundertneun Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter. -

20 Und Reghu lebte zweiunddreißig Jahre und zeugte Serug.

21 Und Reghu lebte, nachdem er Serug gezeugt hatte, zweihundertsieben Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter. -

22 Und Serug lebte dreißig Jahre und zeugte Nahor.

23 Und Serug lebte, nachdem er Nahor gezeugt hatte, zweihundert Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter. -

24 Und Nahor lebte neunundzwanzig Jahre und zeugte Tarah.

25 Und Nahor lebte, nachdem er Tarah gezeugt hatte, hundertneunzehn Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter. -

26 Und Tarah lebte siebzig Jahre und zeugte Abram, Nahor und Haran.

27 Und dies sind die Geschlechter Tarahs: Tarah zeugte Abram, Nahor und Haran; und Haran zeugte Lot.

28 Und Haran starb vor dem Angesicht seines Vaters Tarah, in dem Lande seiner Geburt, zu Ur in Chaldäa.

29 Und Abram und Nahor nahmen sich Weiber; der Name des Weibes Abrams war Sarai, und der Name des Weibes Nahors Milka, die Tochter Harans, des Vaters der Milka und des Vaters der Jiska.

30 Und Sarai war unfruchtbar, sie hatte kein Kind.

31 Und Tarah nahm seinen Sohn Abram und Lot, den Sohn Harans, seines Sohnes Sohn, und Sarai, seine Schwiegertochter, das Weib seines Sohnes Abram; und sie zogen miteinander aus Ur in Chaldäa, um in das Land Kanaan zu gehen; und sie kamen bis Haran und wohnten daselbst.

32 Und die Tage Tarahs waren zweihundertfünf Jahre, und Tarah starb in Haran.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #575

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575. 'The days of man were to be a hundred and twenty years' means that he ought to have remnants of faith. At verses 3, 4 of the previous chapter it was stated that 'days' and 'years' meant periods of time and states, and that the most ancient people meant states and changes in the states of the Church by the numbers which they compounded variously. The exact nature of their computation of things that had to do with the Church is one of those matters that have been lost. Here in like manner numbers of years occur, whose meaning nobody can possibly know unless he knows what is concealed in each of the numbers 1-12, and so on. It is quite apparent that they embody some arcanum or other, for in saying that they would live a hundred and twenty years this verse contradicts those that go before it. Nor subsequently did they live a mere hundred and twenty years, as is clear from what Chapter 11 says about those who lived after the Flood - that Shem lived 500 years after he beget Arpachshad, Arpachshad 407 years after he beget Shelah, Shelah 403 years as well after he beget Eber, and Eber 430 years after he beget Peleg. Chapter 9:28 says that Noah lived 350 years after the Flood; and other examples could be given. What the number 120 embodies however is clear merely from the numbers to and 12, for 120 is the product of 10 times 12. It means remnants of faith. In the Word the number ten has the same meaning as tenths, representing remnants which are preserved by the Lord within the internal man. And since these are the Lord's alone they are holy. The number twelve means faith, that is, all things belonging to faith in their entirety. So this composite number means remnants of faith.

  
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Genesis 11

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1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

4 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

10 This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.

12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:

15 and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.

16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.

18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.

19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.

20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.

22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.

24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

28 Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.