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1 Tako otide Avram iz Misira gore na jug, on i žena mu i sve što imaše, takođe i Lot s njim.

2 A beše Avram vrlo bogat stokom, srebrom i zlatom.

3 I iđaše svojim putevima od juga sve do Vetilja, do mesta gde mu prvo beše šator, između Vetilja i Gaja,

4 Do mesta, gde pre beše načinio žrtvenik; i onde prizva Avram ime Gospodnje.

5 A i Lot koji iđaše s Avramom imaše ovaca i goveda i šatora.

6 I zemlja ne mogaše ih nositi zajedno, jer blago njihovo beše veliko da ne mogoše živeti zajedno,

7 I beše svađa među pastirima Avramove stoke i pastirima Lotove stoke. A u to vreme živehu Hananeji i Ferezeji u onoj zemlji.

8 Pa Avram reče Lotu: Nemoj da se svađamo ja i ti, ni moji pastiri i tvoji pastiri; jer smo braća.

9 Nije li ti otvorena cela zemlja? Odeli se od mene. Ako ćeš ti na levo, ja ću na desno; ako li ćeš ti na desno ja ću na levo.

10 Tada Lot podiže oči svoje i sagleda svu ravnicu jordansku, kako celu natapaše reka, beše kao vrt Gospodnji, kao zemlja misirska, sve do Zagora, pre nego Gospod zatre Sodom i Gomor.

11 I Lot izabra sebi svu ravnicu jordansku, i otide Lot na istok; i razdeliše se jedan od drugog:

12 Avram življaše u zemlji hananskoj, a Lot življaše po gradovima u onoj ravnici premeštajući svoje šatore do Sodoma.

13 A ljudi u Sodomu behu nevaljali, i grešahu Gospodu veoma.

14 A Gospod reče Avramu, pošto se Lot odeli od njega: Podigni sada oči svoje, pa pogledaj s mesta gde si na sever i na jug i na istok i na zapad.

15 Jer svu zemlju što vidiš tebi ću dati i semenu tvom do veka.

16 I učiniću da semena tvog bude kao praha na zemlji; ako ko uzmože izbrojati prah na zemlji, moći će izbrojati i seme tvoje.

17 Ustani, i prolazi tu zemlju u dužinu i u širinu; jer ću je tebi dati.

18 I Avram diže šatore, i dođe i naseli se u ravnici mamrijskoj, koja je kod Hevrona, i onde načini žrtvenik Gospodu.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1709

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1709. 'Three hundred and eighteen men' means the nature of those goods, that is to say, they are the holy things employed in conflict. The number eighteen entails this, as also does the number three hundred, for these numbers are compounded from three and six. Three means that which is holy, as shown in 720, 901, and six means conflict, as shown in 737, 900. Abram's bringing out of such a number of men is true historically; but still it was also representative, as is every historical detail of the Word recorded in the five Books of Moses, and in the Books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Daniel, and Jonah, where in like manner numbers embody arcana within them. For nothing has been written in the Word that was not of such a representative nature. If it were not representative it would not be the Word and it would never have been recorded that Abram brought out three hundred and eighteen, and also that they were trained and were born in his house, besides many other details mentioned in this chapter.

  
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