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1 挪亞的兒子、含、雅弗的代記在下面。洪水以,他們都生了兒子。

2 雅弗的兒子是歌篾、瑪各、瑪代、雅完、土巴、米設、提拉。

3 歌篾的兒子是亞實基拿、利法、陀迦瑪。

4 雅完的兒子是以利沙、他施、基提、多單。

5 這些人的後裔將各國的地土、海分開居住,各隨各的方言、宗族立國。

6 含的兒子是古實、麥西、弗、迦南

7 古實的兒子是西巴、哈腓拉、撒弗他、拉瑪、撒弗提迦。拉瑪的兒子是示巴、底但。

8 古實又生寧錄,他為世上英雄之首。

9 他在耶和華面前是個英勇的獵戶,所以俗語:像寧錄在耶和華面前是個英勇的獵戶。

10 他國的起頭是巴別、以力、亞甲、甲尼,都在示拿

11 他從那出來往亞述去,建造尼尼微、利河伯、迦拉,

12 尼尼微、迦拉中間的利鮮,這就是那城。

13 麥西生路低人、亞拿米人、利哈比人、拿弗土希人、

14 帕斯魯細人、迦斯路希人、迦斐託人;從迦斐託出來的有非利士人

15 迦南長子西頓,又生赫

16 和耶布斯人、亞摩利人、革迦撒人、

17 希未人、亞基人、西尼人、

18 亞瓦底人、洗瑪利人、哈馬人,來迦南的諸族分散了。

19 迦南的境界是從西頓向基拉耳的路上,直到迦薩,又向所多瑪、蛾摩拉、押瑪、洗扁的路上,直到拉沙。

20 這就是含的後裔,各隨他們的宗族、方言,所住的地土、邦國。

21 雅弗的哥哥,是希伯子孫之祖,他也生了兒子

22 兒子是以攔、亞述、亞法撒、路德、亞蘭。

23 亞蘭的兒子是烏斯、戶勒、基帖、瑪施。

24 亞法撒生沙拉;沙拉生希伯。

25 希伯生了兩個兒子,個名叫法勒(法勒就是分的意思),因為那時人就分居住;法勒的兄弟名叫約坍。

26 約坍生亞摩答、沙列、哈薩瑪非、耶拉

27 哈多蘭、烏薩、德拉、

28 俄巴路、亞比瑪利、示巴、

29 阿斐、哈腓拉、約巴,這都是約坍的兒子。

30 他們所的地方是從米沙直到西發東邊的

31 這就是的子孫,各隨他們的宗族、方言,所住的地土、邦國。

32 這些都是挪亞三個兒子的宗族,各隨他們的支派立國。洪水以,他們在上分為邦國。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1183

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1183. What is signified in particular by “Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar,” cannot so well be seen, because they are not mentioned in other parts of the Word, except Calneh (in Amos 6:2) but they are varieties of such worship. But as regards the land of Shinar in which these worships were, that external worship wherein is what is profane is signified by it in the Word is evident from its signification in the following chapter (Genesis 11:2), and also in Zechariah 5:11 and, especially in Daniel, where these words occur:

The Lord gave Jehoiakim, king of Judah, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, with part of the vessels of the house of God, and he carried them into the land of Shinar, into the house of his god and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god (Daniel 1:2),

by which is signified that holy things were profaned: “the vessels of the house of God,” are holy things; “the house of the god of Babel, in the land of Shinar,” is profane things, into which the holy things were brought. Although these incidents are historical, yet they involve these arcana, as do all the historical facts of the Word. The same is further evident from the profanation of the same vessels (Daniel 5:3-5). If sacred things had not been represented by them, no such events would have taken place.

  
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