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Brojevi 21

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1 A kad ču Hananej, car aradski, koji življaše na jugu, da ide Izrailj putem kojim idoše uhode, on se pobi s njima i zarobi ih nekoliko.

2 Tada se Izrailj zavetova Gospodu i reče: Ako daš ovaj narod meni u ruke, do temelja ću raskopati gradove njihove.

3 I usliši Gospod glas Izrailjev i dade mu Hananeje, a on zatre njih i gradove njihove, i prozva ono mesto Orma.

4 Potom pođoše od gore Ora k Crvenom moru obilazeći zemlju edomsku, i oslabi duh narodu od puta.

5 I vikaše narod na Boga i na Mojsija: Zašto nas izvedoste iz Misira da izginemo u ovoj pustinji? Jer nema ni hleba ni vode, a ovaj se nikakvi hleb većogadio duši našoj.

6 A Gospod pusti na narod zmije vatrene, koje ih ujedahu, te pomre mnogo naroda u Izrailju.

7 Tada dođe narod k Mojsiju i rekoše: Zgrešismo što vikasmo na Gospoda i na tebe; moli Boga neka ukloni zmije od nas. I Mojsije se pomoli za narod.

8 I Gospod reče Mojsiju: Načini zmiju vatrenu, i metni je na motku, i koga ujede zmija, neka pogleda u nju, pa će ozdraviti.

9 I načini Mojsije zmiju od bronze, i metnu je na motku, i koga god ujede zmija on pogleda u zmiju od bronze, i ozdravi.

10 Potom pođoše sinovi Izrailjevi, i stadoše u logor u Ovotu.

11 I iz Ovota otišavši stadoše u logor na brdima avarimskim u pustinji koja je prema moavskoj s istoka.

12 Odande otišavši stadoše u logor u dolini Zaredu.

13 I odatle otišavši stadoše u logor na brdu na Arnonu, koji je u pustinji i izlazi od međe amorejske. Jer je Arnon međa moavska između Moavaca i Amorejaca.

14 Zato se kaže u knjizi o ratovima Gospodnjim: Na Vajeva u Sufi i na potoke arnonske.

15 Jer ti potoci, koji dopiru do mesta Ara, teku pokraj međe moavske.

16 A otuda dođoše k Viru; to je studenac za koji beše rekao Gospod Mojsiju: Skupi narod, i daću im vode.

17 Tada peva Izrailj pesmu ovu: Diži se, studenče; pripevajte ga;

18 Studenče, koji kopaše knezovi, koji iskopaše poglavari narodni s onim koji postavi zakon, palicama svojim. A iz pustinje otidoše u Mantanail,

19 A iz Mantanaila, u Nadil, a iz Nadila u Vamot,

20 A iz Vamota u dolinu koja je u polju moavskom kod gore Fazge i gleda u pustinju.

21 Tada posla Izrailj poslanike k Sionu, caru amorejskom govoreći:

22 Pusti da prođemo kroz tvoju zemlju, nećemo svrtati ni u polje ni u vinograd, niti ćemo piti vode iz studenaca; ići ćemo carskim putem dokle ne pređemo među tvoju.

23 Ali ne dade Sion Izrailju da prođe kroz zemlju njegovu, nego sabra Sion sav narod svoj, i izađe na Izrailja u pustinju, i dođe u Jasu, i pobi se s Izrailjem.

24 Ali ga iseče Izrailj oštrim mačem, i osvoji zemlju njegovu od Arona pa do Javoka, do sinova Amonovih, jer tvrda beše međa sinova Amonovih.

25 I uze Izrailj sva ona mesta i naseli se u svim gradovima amorejskim, u Esevonu i u svim selima njegovim.

26 Jer Esevon beše grad Siona, cara amorejskog, koji beše prvi zavojštio na cara moavskog i beše mu uzeo svu zemlju njegovu do Arnona.

27 Zato govore u priči: Hodite u Esevon, da se sagradi i podigne grad Sionov.

28 Jer oganj izađe iz Esevona, plamen iz grada Sionovog, i spali Ar moavski i stanovnike na visini arnonskoj.

29 Teško tebi, Moave; propao si; narode Hemosov; dao je sinove svoje koji utekoše i kćeri svoje u ropstvo Sionu, caru amorejskom.

30 Ali ih postreljasmo, propade Esevon do Devona, i potrsmo ih do Nofe, koja dopire do Medeve.

31 I tako živi Izrailj u zemlji amorejskoj.

32 Potom posla Mojsije da uhode Jazir, i uzeše sela oko njega, i izagnaše Amorejce koji behu onde.

33 Potom obrativši se pođoše u Vasan; i iziđe Og, car vasanski pred njih, on i sav narod njegov na boj u Edrajin.

34 A Gospod reče Mojsiju: Ne boj ga se; jer sam ga dao u tvoje ruke i sav narod njegov i zemlju njegovu; i učini mu kako si učinio Sionu, caru Amorejskom koji življaše u Esevonu.

35 I pobiše ga i sinove njegove i sav narod njegov, da ne osta nijedan, i osvojiše zemlju njegovu.

   

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Daughters

  

In Genesis 19:8, they signify the affections of good and truth, and the blessedness perceivable from the enjoyment thereof by people who do not violate the divine and holy principle of the Lord.

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 2362)

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Genesis 19

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1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

2 and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

5 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."

6 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

7 He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.

8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

9 They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

12 The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

18 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.

19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

21 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

22 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

32 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

36 Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.

37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.