The Bible

创世记 13

¹ 亚伯兰带着他的妻子与罗得，并一切所有的，都从埃及上南地去。

² 亚伯兰的金、银、牲畜极多。

³ 他从南地渐渐往伯特利去，到了伯特利和艾的中间，就是从前支搭帐棚的地方，

⁴ 也是他起先筑坛的地方；他又在那里求告耶和华的名。

⁵ 与亚伯兰同行的罗得也有牛群、羊群、帐棚。

⁶ 那地容不下他们；因为他们的财物甚多，使他们不能同居。

⁷ 当时，迦南人与比利洗人在那地居住。亚伯兰的牧人和罗得的牧人相争。

⁸ 亚伯兰就对罗得说：你我不可相争，你的牧人和我的牧人也不可相争，因为我们是骨肉(原文作弟兄)。

⁹ 遍地不都在你眼前麽？请你离开我：你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左。

¹⁰ 罗得举目看见约但河的全平原，直到琐珥，都是滋润的，那地在耶和华未灭所多玛、蛾摩拉以先如同耶和华的园子，也像埃及地。

¹¹ 於是罗得选择约但河的全平原，往东迁移；他们就彼此分离了。

¹² 亚伯兰住在迦南地，罗得住在平原的城邑，渐渐挪移帐棚，直到所多玛。

¹³ 所多玛人在耶和华面前罪大恶极。

¹⁴ 罗得离别亚伯兰以後，耶和华对亚伯兰说：从你所在的地方，你举目向东西南北观看；

¹⁵ 凡你所看见的一切地，我都要赐给你和你的後裔，直到永远。

¹⁶ 我也要使你的後裔如同地上的尘沙那样多，人若能数算地上的尘沙才能数算你的後裔。

¹⁷ 你起来，纵横走遍这地，因为我必把这地赐给你。

¹⁸ 亚伯兰就搬了帐棚，来到希伯仑幔利的橡树那里居住，在那里为耶和华筑了一座坛。

From Swedenborg's Works

Arcana Coelestia #1601

Study this Passage

1601. Verse 14. And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up, I pray, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward. “Jehovah said unto Abram,” signifies that Jehovah spoke thus to the Lord; “after that Lot was separated from him,” signifies when the cupidities of the external man had been removed so as not to impede; “Lift up, I pray, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art,” signifies the state in which the Lord then was, from which He could perceive things that were to come; “northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward,” signifies all men, as many as there are in the universe.

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