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Genesis 8

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1 Siis Jumal mõtles Noale ja kõigile metsloomadele ja kõigile kariloomadele, kes temaga laevas olid; ja Jumal laskis tuult puhuda üle maa ja vesi alanes.

2 Ja sügavuse allikad ja taevaluugid suleti, ja sadu taevast keelati.

3 Ja vesi taganes maa pealt, taganes üha, ja saja viiekümne päeva pärast oli vesi vähenenud.

4 Ja seitsmenda kuu seitsmeteistkümnendal päeval peatus laev Ararati mägede kohal.

5 Ja vesi vähenes üha kümnenda kuuni; kümnenda kuu esimesel päeval paistsid mägede tipud.

6 Ja kui nelikümmend päeva oli möödunud, siis Noa avas laeva akna, mille ta oli teinud,

7 ja laskis välja ühe kaarna; see lendas sinna ja tänna, kuni vesi maa pealt oli kuivanud.

8 Siis ta laskis enese juurest välja ühe tuvi, et näha, kas vesi on maa pealt kahanenud.

9 Aga tuvi ei leidnud oma jalavarvastele puhkepaika ja tuli tagasi tema juurde laeva, sest vesi oli veel kogu maa peal; siis ta pistis oma käe välja ja võttis tema ning pani enese juurde laeva.

10 Ja ta ootas veel teist seitse päeva ning laskis taas ühe tuvi laevast välja.

11 Ja õhtul tuli tuvi tema juurde, ja vaata, tal oli nokas õlipuu haljas leht. Siis Noa mõistis, et vesi oli maa pealt kahanenud.

12 Ja ta ootas veel teist seitse päeva ning laskis ühe tuvi välja, aga see ei tulnud enam tagasi tema juurde.

13 Ja kuuesaja esimesel Noa eluaastal, esimese kuu esimesel päeval, oli vesi maa pealt kuivanud. Ja Noa võttis ära laeva katuse ja vaatas, ja ennäe, maapind oli tahenenud.

14 Ja teise kuu kahekümne seitsmendal päeval oli maa täiesti kuiv.

15 Ja Jumal kõneles Noaga ning ütles:

16 'Mine laevast välja, sina ja su naine ja su pojad ja su poegade naised koos sinuga!

17 Kõik loomad, kes su juures on, kõik liha, niihästi linnud kui loomad, ja kõik roomajad, kes maa peal roomavad, vii enesega koos välja, et nad sigineksid maa peal, oleksid viljakad ja et neid maa peale saaks palju!'

18 Ja Noa läks välja ja ta pojad ja ta naine ja ta poegade naised koos temaga.

19 Kõik loomad, kõik linnud ja kõik roomajad, kes liiguvad maa peal, läksid laevast välja sugukondade kaupa.

20 Ja Noa ehitas Issandale altari ja võttis kõigist puhtaist loomadest ja kõigist puhtaist lindudest ning ohverdas altaril põletusohvreid.

21 Ja Issand tundis meeldivat lõhna ja Issand mõtles oma südames: 'Ma ei nea enam maad inimese pärast, sest inimese südame mõtlemised on kurjad ta lapsepõlvest peale; ma ei hävita ka enam kõike, mis elab, nõnda nagu ma olen teinud.

22 Niikaua kui püsib maa, ei lõpe külv ega lõikus, külm ega kuum, suvi ega talv, päev ega öö.'

   

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Arcana Coelestia #832

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832. GENESIS 8

1. And God remembered Noah, and every wild animal, and every beast that was with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged.

2. The fountains also of the deep, and the cataracts of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

3. And the waters receded from off the earth, going and returning; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters failed.

4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

5. And the waters were going and failing until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

6. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

7. And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth, going and returning, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8. And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the faces of the ground.

9. And the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the faces of the whole earth; and he put forth his hand and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark.

10. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

11. And the dove came back to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive leaf plucked off; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12. And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, and she returned not again unto him anymore.

13. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and saw, and behold, the faces of the ground were dry.

14. In the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

15. And God spake unto Noah, saying,

16. Go forth from the ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

17. Every wild animal that is with thee of all flesh, as to fowl, and as to beast, and as to every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, bring forth with thee, that they may spread themselves in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

18. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

19. Every wild animal, every creeping thing, and every fowl, everything that creepeth upon the earth, according to their families, went forth out of the ark.

20. And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21. And Jehovah smelled an odor of rest; and Jehovah said in His heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore on man’s account; because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite anymore everything living, as I have done.

22. During all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

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The subject which now follows in due connection is the man of the new church, who is called “Noah;” and in fact the subject is his state after temptation, even to his regeneration, and thereafter.

  
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