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Genezo 8

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1 Kaj Dio rememoris Noan, kaj cxiujn bestojn kaj cxiujn brutojn, kiuj estis kun li en la arkeo; kaj Dio venigis venton sur la teron, kaj la akvo kvietigxis.

2 Kaj fermigxis la fontoj de la abismo kaj la aperturoj de la cxielo, kaj cxesigxis la pluvo el la cxielo.

3 Kaj iom post iom reforigxis la akvo de sur la tero, kaj la akvo komencis malmultigxi post la paso de cent kvindek tagoj.

4 Kaj la arkeo haltis en la sepa monato, en la dek-sepa tago de la monato, sur la montoj Ararat.

5 Kaj la akvo konstante malpliigxadis gxis la deka monato; en la unua tago de la deka monato montrigxis la suproj de la montoj.

6 Kaj post kvardek tagoj Noa malfermis la fenestron de la arkeo, kiun li faris.

7 Kaj li ellasis korvon, kaj gxi elflugis, forflugadis kaj revenadis, gxis forsekigxis la akvo sur la tero.

8 Kaj li ellasis de si kolombon, por vidi, cxu jam malfortigxis la akvo sur la tero.

9 Sed la kolombo ne trovis ripozejon por siaj piedoj, kaj gxi revenis al li en la arkeon, cxar akvo estis sur la suprajxo de la tuta tero. Kaj li etendis sian manon kaj prenis la kolombon kaj envenigis gxin al si en la arkeon.

10 Kaj li atendis ankoraux aliajn sep tagojn, kaj li denove ellasis la kolombon el la arkeo.

11 Kaj revenis al li la kolombo en tempo vespera, kaj jen gxi havis en sia busxo desxiritan folion de olivarbo; kaj Noa konvinkigxis, ke la akvo malfortigxis sur la tero.

12 Kaj li atendis ankoraux aliajn sep tagojn, kaj li ellasis la kolombon, kaj cxi tiu jam ne plu revenis al li.

13 Kaj en la sescent-unua jaro, en la unua tago de la unua monato, forsekigxis la akvo sur la tero; kaj Noa malfermis la tegmenton de la arkeo, kaj li vidis, ke sekigxis la suprajxo de la tero.

14 Kaj en la dua monato, en la dudek-sepa tago de la monato, la tero elsekigxis.

15 Kaj Dio diris al Noa jene:

16 Eliru el la arkeo, vi kaj via edzino kaj viaj filoj kaj la edzinoj de viaj filoj kune kun vi;

17 cxiujn bestojn, kiuj estas kun vi, el cxiu karno, el la birdoj kaj brutoj, kaj el cxiuj rampajxoj, kiuj rampas sur la tero, elirigu kune kun vi; kaj ili movigxu sur la tero kaj fruktu kaj multigxu sur la tero.

18 Kaj eliris Noa kaj liaj filoj kaj lia edzino kaj la edzinoj de liaj filoj kune kun li.

19 CXiuj bestoj, cxiuj rampajxoj, kaj cxiuj birdoj, cxio, kio movigxas sur la tero, laux siaj familioj, eliris el la arkeo.

20 Kaj Noa konstruis altaron al la Eternulo, kaj li prenis el cxiuj puraj brutoj kaj el cxiuj puraj birdoj kaj oferis bruloferojn sur la altaro.

21 Kaj la Eternulo flaris la agrablan odoron, kaj la Eternulo diris en Sia koro: Mi ne plu malbenos la teron pro la homo, cxar la penso de la homa koro estas malbona jam de lia juneco; kaj Mi ne batos plu cxion vivantan, kiel Mi faris.

22 De nun tiel longe, kiel la tero ekzistos, semado kaj rikoltado, malvarmo kaj varmo, somero kaj vintro, tago kaj nokto ne cxesigxos.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #737

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737. Noah was a son of six hundred years. That this signifies his first state of temptation, is evident, because here and as far as to Ber in the eleventh chapter, numbers and periods of years and names mean nothing else than actual things; just as do also the ages and all the names in the fifth chapter. That “six hundred years” here signify the first state of temptation, is evident from the dominant numbers in six hundred, which are ten, and six, twice multiplied into themselves. A greater or less number from the same factors changes nothing. As regards the number “ten” it has been shown already (at chapter 6,verse 3) that it signifies remains; and that “six” here signifies labor and combat is evident from many passages in the Word. For the case is this: In what has gone before the subject is the preparation of the man called “Noah” for temptation-that he was furnished by the Lord with truths of the understanding and goods of the will. These truths and goods are remains, which are not brought out so as to be recognized until the man is being regenerated. In the case of those who are being regenerated through temptations, the remains in a man are for the angels that are with him, who draw out from them the things wherewith they defend the man against the evil spirits who excite the falsities in him, and thus assail him. As the remains are signified by “ten” and the combats by “six” for this reason the years are said to be “six hundred” in which the dominant numbers are ten, and six, and signify a state of temptation.

[2] As regards the number “six” in particular that it signifies combat is evident from the first chapter of Genesis, where the six days are described in which man was regenerated, before he became celestial, and in which there was continual combat, but on the seventh day, rest. It is for this reason that there are six days of labor and the seventh is the sabbath, which signifies rest. And hence it is that a Hebrew servant served six years, and the seventh year was free (Exodus 21:2; Deuteronomy 15:12; Jeremiah 34:14); also that six years they sowed the land and gathered in the fruits thereof, but the seventh year omitted to sow it (Exodus 23:10-12), and dealt in like manner with the vineyard; and that in the seventh year was “a sabbath of sabbath unto the land, a sabbath of Jehovah” (Leviticus 25:3-4). As “six” signifies labor and combat, it also signifies the dispersion of falsities, as in Ezekiel: Behold six men came from the way of the upper gate which looketh toward the north, and everyone had his weapon of dispersion in his hand (Ezekiel 9:2);

and again, against Gog:

I will make thee to turn again, and will make thee a sixth, and will cause thee to come up from the sides of the north (Ezekiel 39:2).

Here “six” and “to reduce to a sixth” denote dispersion; the “north” falsities; “Gog” those who derive matters of doctrine from things external, whereby they destroy internal worship.

In Job:

In six troubles He shall deliver thee, yea, in the seventh there shall no evil touch thee (Job 5:19),

meaning the combat of temptations.

[3] But “six” occurs in the Word where it does not signify labor, combat, or the dispersion of falsities, but the holy of faith, because of its relation to “twelve” which signifies faith and all things of faith in one complex; and to “three” which signifies the holy; whence is derived the genuine signification of the number “six;” as in Ezekiel 40:5, where the reed of the man, with which he measured the holy city of Israel, was “six cubits;” and in other places. The reason of this derivation is that the holy of faith is in the combats of temptation, and that the six days of labor and combat look to the holy seventh day.

  
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Genesis 1

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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

8 God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.