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Genesis 7

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1 Ja Issand ütles Noale: 'Mine sina ja kogu su pere laeva, sest ma olen näinud, et sa selle rahvapõlve seas minu ees õige oled.

2 Võta enesele kõigist puhtaist loomadest seitse paari, isane ja emane; ja loomadest, kes puhtad ei ole, kaks - isane ja emane.

3 Nõndasamuti lindudest taeva all seitse paari, isane ja emane, et nende sugu jääks elama kogu maa peale.

4 Sest juba seitsme päeva pärast ma lasen vihma sadada maa peale nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd, ja ma kaotan maapinnalt kõik olendid, keda ma olen teinud!'

5 Ja Noa tegi kõik nõnda, nagu Issand teda käskis.

6 Ja Noa oli kuussada aastat vana, kui uputusvesi maa peale tuli.

7 Ja Noa läks laeva, ja ta pojad ja ta naine ja ta poegade naised temaga, veeuputuse eest.

8 Puhtaist loomadest ja loomadest, kes puhtad ei ole, ja lindudest ja kõigist, kes maa peal roomavad,

9 tulid kahekesi Noa juurde laeva isane ja emane, nõnda nagu Jumal Noale oli käsu andnud.

10 Ja seitsme päeva pärast tuli veeuputus maa peale.

11 Sel aastal, mil Noa kuussada aastat vanaks sai, teise kuu seitsmeteistkümnendal päeval, otse selsamal päeval puhkesid kõik suure sügavuse allikad ja taevaluugid tehti lahti.

12 Ja sadu tuli maa peale nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd.

13 Otse selsamal päeval läksid Noa ja Noa pojad Seem ja Haam ja Jaafet ning Noa naine ja kolm ta poegade naist üheskoos laeva,

14 nemad ja kõik metsloomad oma liikide järgi, ja kõiksugu kariloomad oma liikide järgi, ja kõiksugu roomajad, kes maa peal roomavad, oma liikide järgi, ja kõiksugu lendajad oma liikide järgi, kõik linnud, kõik tiivulised.

15 Ja need tulid Noa juurde laeva kahekaupa kõigest lihast, kus eluvaim sees on.

16 Ja need, kes sisse läksid, olid isane ja emane kõigest lihast, nõnda nagu Jumal temale oli käsu andnud. Ja Issand sulges ukse tema tagant.

17 Siis tuli nelikümmend päeva veeuputust maa peale; vesi tõusis ja tõstis laeva, nõnda et see kerkis maast kõrgele.

18 Ja vesi võttis võimust ning seda sai maa peal väga palju, ja laev liikus veepinnal.

19 Ja vesi võttis maa peal väga võimust ja kõik kõrged mäed kogu taeva all kaeti.

20 Vesi tõusis neist viisteist küünart kõrgemale, nõnda et mäed olid kaetud.

21 Siis heitis hinge kõik liha, mis maa peal liikus, niihästi linnud kui kariloomad ja metsloomad ja kõik roomajad, kes maa peal roomasid, ja kõik inimesed ka.

22 Kõik, kellel eluvaimu hingus ninas oli, kõik, kes olid kuival maal, need surid.

23 Nõnda hävitati kõik olendid, kes maa peal olid; niihästi inimesed kui loomad ja roomajad, ja linnud taeva all hävitati maa pealt, järele jäid ainult Noa ja need, kes temaga laevas olid.

24 Ja vesi võimutses maa peal sada viiskümmend päeva.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #734

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734. In the preceding chapter (Genesis 6:13-22) the truths of the understanding are treated of, in which the man of the church called “Noah” was instructed by the Lord before he was regenerated; and next in this chapter (verses 1-5), the goods of the will are treated of, with which also he was endowed by the Lord. As both are treated of, it appears like a repetition. But now in verses 6-11 his temptation is treated of, and here the first state and thus the beginning of temptation; and, as everyone can see, a repetition occurs again. For it is said in this verse that “Noah was a son of six hundred years” when the flood came upon the earth; and in the eleventh verse (Genesis 7:11) that it was “in the six-hundredth year of his life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month.” And so in the seventh verse (Genesis 7:7) it is said that Noah went into the ark with his sons and their wives, and likewise in the thirteenth verse. . Again it is said in the eighth and ninth verses (8-9) that the beasts went in unto Noah into the ark; and also in verses 14-16. From which it is evident that here too there is a repetition of what was said before. Those who abide in the sense of the letter alone cannot know but that it is a matter of history thus repeated. But here as elsewhere there is not the least word that is superfluous and vain; for it is the Word of the Lord. There is therefore no repetition, except with another signification. And here, in fact, as before, the signification is that it is the first temptation, which is temptation as to things of his understanding; but afterwards it is his temptation as to things of the will. These temptations follow one after the other with him who is to be regenerated. For to be tempted as to things of the understanding is quite another thing from being tempted as to what is of the will. Temptation as to things of the understanding is light; but temptation as to things of the will is severe.

  
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Genesis 6

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1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

22 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.