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1 Ja Jumala siunasi Noan ja hänen poikansa, ja sanoi heille: olkaat hedelmälliset, lisääntykäät ja täyttäkäät maata.

2 Ja teidän pelkonne ja hämmästyksenne olkoon kaikissa eläimissä maan päällä, ja kaikissa linnuissa taivaan alla; ja kaikissa, jotka maalla matelevat, ja kaikissa kaloissa meressä: ne ovat teidän käsiinne annetut.

3 Kaikki, jotka liikkuvat ja elävät, olkoon teille ruaksi: niinkuin viheriäisen ruohon, olen minä kaikki teille antanut.

4 Ainoastansa älkäät syökö lihaa, jossa vielä on veri itsessänsä:

5 Ja totisesti minä tahdon vaatia teidän ruumiinne veren, kaikilta eläimiltä minä sen tahdon vaatia: ja ihmisen kädestä, ja myös itsekunkin hänen veljensä kädestä tahdon minä vaatia ihmisen hengen.

6 Se kuin ihmisen veren vuodattaa, hänen verensä pitää ihmisen kautta vuodatettaman: sillä Jumala on ihmisen tehnyt kuvaksensa.

7 Olkaat siis hedelmälliset, lisääntykäät ja enentäkäät teitänne maassa, ja tulkaat siinä moneksi.

8 Ja Jumala puhui Noalle ja hänen pojillensa hänen kanssansa, sanoen:

9 Ja minä, katso, minä teen teidän kanssanne minun liittoni, ja teidän siemenenne kanssa teidän jälkeenne.

10 Ja jokaisen elävän hengen kanssa, jotka teidän tykönänne ovat, sekä linnuissa että karjassa, ja kaikissa eläimissä maan päällä, jotka teidän tykönänne ovat, kaikissa niissä, jotka arkista läksivät, mikä ikänänsä eläin se maassa on.

11 Ja teen minun liittoni teidän kanssanne: ettei tästedes enää pidä kaikkea lihaa hukutettaman vedenpaisumisella: ja ei pidä tästedes enää vedenpaisumus tuleman maata turmelemaan.

12 Ja Jumala sanoi: tämä on sen liiton merkki, jonka minä annan minun ja teidän välillenne, ja joka elävän hengen välille teidän tykönänne, tästedes ijankaikkiseen.

13 Minun kaareni minä olen pannut pilviin: sen pitää oleman liiton merkki, minun ja maan välillä.

14 Ja koska niin tapahtuu, että minä tuotan pilven maan ylitse: niin pitää kaari pilvissä nähtämän.

15 Ja niin minä muistan minun liittoni, minun ja teidän välillänne, ja joka elävän hengen kaikkinaisessa lihassa; ettei enää vedenpaisumus pidä tuleman kaikkea lihaa hukuttamaan.

16 Sentäden pitää kaaren pilvissä oleman, että minä katson sitä, ja muistan sen ijankaikkisen liiton Jumalan välillä ja joka elävän hengen, kaikkinaisessa lihassa, kuin maan päällä on.

17 Ja Jumala sanoi Noalle: tämä on sen liiton merkki, jonka minä olen tehnyt minun ja kaiken lihan välille maan päällä.

18 Ja Noan pojat, jotka läksivät arkista, olivat Sem, Ham, ja Japhet. Ja Ham oli Kanaanin Isä.

19 Nämä ovat kolme Noan poikaa, ja heistä ovat ne, jotka hajoitetut ovat kaikkeen maahan.

20 Ja Noa rupesi olemaan peltomiesnä, ja istutti viinamäen.

21 Ja hän joi viinaa; ja juopui ja makasi peittämättä majassansa.

22 Koska Ham, Kanaanin Isä, näki hänen isänsä hävyn, sanoi hän sen molemmille veljillensä, jotka ulkona olivat.

23 Niin otti Sem ja Japhet vaatteen, ja panivat molempain heidän hartioillensa, ja menivät seljittäin, ja peittivät isänsä hävyn. Ja heidän kasvonsa olivat käännetyt pois, niin etteivät he nähneet isänsä häpyä.

24 Koska Noa heräsi viinastansa, ja sai tietää, mitä hänen nuorin poikansa hänelle tehnyt oli:

25 Niin sanoi hän: kirottu olkoon Kanaan: olkoon hän orjain orja, hänen veljeinsä seassa.

26 Ja vielä sanoi: Kiitetty olkoon Herra Semin Jumala, ja Kanaan olkoon hänen orjansa.

27 Jumala levittäköön Japhetin, ja hän asukoon Semin majoissa, ja Kanaan olkoon hänen orjansa.

28 Ja Noa eli, vedenpaisumisen jälkeen kolmesataa ja viisikymmentä ajastaikaa.

29 Ja koko Noan ikä oli yhdeksänsataa ja viisikymmentä ajastaikaa, ja kuoli.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #737

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737. 'Noah was a son of six hundred years' means his initial state of temptation. This is clear from the fact from here down to Eber in Chapter 11 nothing else is meant by numbers, years of age, or names than real things, as was the case also with the ages and names of all those mentioned in Chapter 5. Here 'six hundred years' means the initial state of temptation. This becomes clear from its prime factors which are ten and six multiplied again by ten. When the same factors are involved it makes no difference whether the number arrived at is large or small. As for ten, this has been shown already at 6:3 to mean remnants, while the meaning of six here as labour and conflict is clear from places throughout the Word. For the situation is this: What has gone before dealt with man's preparation for temptation, that is to say, he was supplied by the Lord with truths of the understanding and with goods of the will. These truths and goods are remnants, but they are not brought forth so as to be acknowledged until man is being regenerated. In the case of those who are being regenerated by means of temptations the remnants existing with any man are for the angels present with him. From these remnants they draw out those things with which they protect him against the evil spirits who activate falsities with him and in this way attack him. It is because remnants are meant by 'ten' and conflict by 'six' that six hundred years are spoken of, a number in which ten and six are the prime factors and which means a state of temptation.

[2] As regards conflict being the particular meaning of 'six', this is clear from Genesis 1, which describes the six days of man's regeneration prior to his becoming celestial. During those six days there was constant conflict, but on the seventh day came rest. Consequently there are six days of labour, and the seventh is the sabbath, a word which means rest. This also is why a Hebrew slave was to serve for six years and in the seventh was to go free, Exodus 21:2; Deuteronomy 15:12; Jeremiah 34:14, and why for six years they were to sow the land and gather in the produce, but in the seventh they were to leave it alone, Exodus 23:10-12. The same applied to a vineyard. It is also the reason why in the seventh year the land was to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to Jehovah, Leviticus 25:3-4. Because 'six' means labour and conflict it also means the dispersion of falsity, as in Ezekiel,

Behold, six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which looks towards the north, every man with a weapon of dispersion in his hand. Ezekiel 9:2.

And in the same prophet, against Gog,

I will cause you to turn about, and I will split you into six, and cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north. Ezekiel 39:2.

Here 'six' and 'splitting into six' stand for dispersion, 'the north' for falsities, and 'Gog' for people who seize on doctrinal matters based on things of an external nature with which they destroy internal worship. From Job,

He will deliver you in six troubles, and in a seventh no evil will touch you. Job 5:19.

This stands for the conflict that constitutes temptations.

[3] 'Six' occurs in other parts of the Word where it does not mean labour, conflict, or the dispersion of falsity, but the holiness of faith. In these instances it is related to twelve, which means faith and all things of faith in their entirety, and to three which means that which is holy. Consequently there is also a genuine derivative meaning to the number six, as in Ezekiel 40:5, where the man's measuring rod with which he measured the holy city of Israel was six cubits long; and in other places. The reason for this derivative is that in the conflict of temptation the holiness of faith is present, and also that six days of labour and conflict look forward to the holy seventh day.

  
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1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.

2 He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name "Adam," in the day when they were created.

3 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

5 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

6 Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.

7 Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

8 All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.

9 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.

10 Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

11 All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.

12 Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.

13 Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters

14 and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.

15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.

16 Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

17 All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.

18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.

19 Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

20 All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.

21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.

22 Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

23 All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.

24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.

26 Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of a son,

29 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."

30 Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

31 All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

32 Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.