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1 挪亚的儿子、含、雅弗的代记在下面。洪水以,他们都生了儿子。

2 雅弗的儿子是歌篾、玛各、玛代、雅完、土巴、米设、提拉。

3 歌篾的儿子是亚实基拿、利法、陀迦玛。

4 雅完的儿子是以利沙、他施、基提、多单。

5 这些人的後裔将各国的地土、海分开居住,各随各的方言、宗族立国。

6 含的儿子是古实、麦西、弗、迦南

7 古实的儿子是西巴、哈腓拉、撒弗他、拉玛、撒弗提迦。拉玛的儿子是示巴、底但。

8 古实又生宁录,他为世上英雄之首。

9 他在耶和华面前是个英勇的猎户,所以俗语:像宁录在耶和华面前是个英勇的猎户。

10 他国的起头是巴别、以力、亚甲、甲尼,都在示拿

11 他从那出来往亚述去,建造尼尼微、利河伯、迦拉,

12 尼尼微、迦拉中间的利鲜,这就是那城。

13 麦西生路低人、亚拿米人、利哈比人、拿弗土希人、

14 帕斯鲁细人、迦斯路希人、迦斐托人;从迦斐托出来的有非利士人

15 迦南长子西顿,又生赫

16 和耶布斯人、亚摩利人、革迦撒人、

17 希未人、亚基人、西尼人、

18 亚瓦底人、洗玛利人、哈马人,来迦南的诸族分散了。

19 迦南的境界是从西顿向基拉耳的路上,直到迦萨,又向所多玛、蛾摩拉、押玛、洗扁的路上,直到拉沙。

20 这就是含的後裔,各随他们的宗族、方言,所住的地土、邦国。

21 雅弗的哥哥,是希伯子孙之祖,他也生了儿子

22 儿子是以拦、亚述、亚法撒、路德、亚兰。

23 亚兰的儿子是乌斯、户勒、基帖、玛施。

24 亚法撒生沙拉;沙拉生希伯。

25 希伯生了两个儿子,个名叫法勒(法勒就是分的意思),因为那时人就分居住;法勒的兄弟名叫约坍。

26 约坍生亚摩答、沙列、哈萨玛非、耶拉

27 哈多兰、乌萨、德拉、

28 俄巴路、亚比玛利、示巴、

29 阿斐、哈腓拉、约巴,这都是约坍的儿子。

30 他们所的地方是从米沙直到西发东边的

31 这就是的子孙,各随他们的宗族、方言,所住的地土、邦国。

32 这些都是挪亚三个儿子的宗族,各随他们的支派立国。洪水以,他们在上分为邦国。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1222

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1222. 'He was Japheth's elder brother' means that its worship was external. This is clear from the meaning of 'Japheth' as the external Church, dealt with in verse 18 onwards of the previous chapter and in verses 1-5 above of this. Here 'Shem was Japheth's elder brother' means in particular that the internal Church and the external Church are 'brothers', for the relationship of internal worship to external worship that has internal worship within it cannot be anything different. It is in fact a blood relationship because charity is the chief thing within both of them; but the internal Church is the 'elder brother' because it is prior and interior. 'Japheth's elder brother also embodies here the fact that the second Ancient Church called Eber was to the first Ancient Church as a brother, for Japheth in the internal sense means nothing other than the external worship that has internal worship within it, whatever Church it may be. Therefore the worship of this new Ancient Church, which worship was chiefly external, is meant as well. The internal sense of the Word is such that no attention is paid to the historical details of the literal sense when the universal features are being considered, which exist quite separate or abstracted from the literal sense, for the two are completely different from each other. Consequently 'Japheth's elder brother' here means in the internal sense that the worship of the new Ancient Church was external. Unless such worship was meant there would have been no need to state here that he was Japheth's elder brother.

  
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