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1 Και ευλογησεν ο Θεος τον Νωε και τους υιους αυτου· και ειπε προς αυτους, Αυξανεσθε και πληθυνεσθε, και γεμισατε την γην·

2 και ο φοβος σας και ο τρομος σας θελει εισθαι επι παντα τα ζωα της γης, και επι παντα τα πτηνα του ουρανου, επι παν ο, τι ερπει επι της γης, και επι παντας τους ιχθυας της θαλασσης· εις τας χειρας σας εδοθησαν·

3 παν κινουμενον, το οποιον ζη, θελει εισθαι εις σας προς τροφην· ως τον χλωρον χορτον εδωκα τα παντα εις εσας·

4 κρεας ομως με την ζωην αυτου, με το αιμα αυτου, δεν θελετε φαγει·

5 και εξαπαντος το αιμα σας, το αιμα της ζωης σας, θελω εκζητησει εκ της χειρος παντος ζωου θελω εκζητησει αυτο, και εκ της χειρος του ανθρωπου· εκ της χειρος παντος αδελφου αυτου θελω εκζητησει την ζωην του ανθρωπου·

6 οστις χυση αιμα ανθρωπου, υπο ανθρωπου θελει χυθη το αιμα αυτου· διοτι κατ' εικονα Θεου εποιησεν ο Θεος τον ανθρωπον·

7 σεις δε αυξανεσθε και πληθυνεσθε, πολλαπλασιαζεσθε επι της γης, και πληθυνεσθε επ' αυτης.

8 Και ειπεν ο Θεος προς τον Νωε και προς τους υιους αυτου μετ' αυτου, λεγων,

9 Και εγω, ιδου, στηνω την διαθηκην μου προς εσας, και προς το σπερμα σας υστερον απο σας·

10 και προς παν εμψυχον ζωον, το οποιον ειναι με σας, εκ των πτηνων, εκ των κτηνων και εκ παντων των ζωων της γης, τα οποια ειναι με σας· απο παντος του εξελθοντος εκ της κιβωτου, εως παντος ζωου της γης·

11 και στηνω την διαθηκην μου προς εσας· και δεν θελει πλεον εξολοθρευθη πασα σαρξ απο των υδατων του κατακλυσμου· ουδε θελει εισθαι πλεον κατακλυσμος δια να φθειρη την γην.

12 Και ειπεν ο Θεος, Τουτο ειναι το σημειον της διαθηκης, την οποιαν εγω καμνω μεταξυ εμου και υμων και παντος εμψυχου ζωου το οποιον ειναι με σας, εις γενεας αιωνιους·

13 Θετω το τοξον μου εν τη νεφελη, και θελει εισθαι εις σημειον διαθηκης μεταξυ εμου και της γης·

14 και οταν συννεφωσω νεφελην επι της γης, θελει φανη το τοξον εν τη νεφελη·

15 και θελω ενθυμηθη την διαθηκην μου, την μεταξυ εμου και υμων, και παντος εμψυχου ζωου εκ πασης σαρκος· και τα υδατα δεν θελουσιν εισθαι πλεον εις κατακλυσμον δια να εξαλειψωσι πασαν σαρκα·

16 και το τοξον θελει εισθαι εν τη νεφελη· και θελω βλεπει αυτο, δια να ενθυμωμαι την παντοτεινην διαθηκην την μεταξυ Θεου και παντος εμψυχου ζωου εκ πασης σαρκος ητις ειναι επι της γης.

17 Και ειπεν ο Θεος προς τον Νωε, Τουτο ειναι το σημειον της διαθηκης, την οποιαν εστησα μεταξυ εμου και πασης σαρκος ητις ειναι επι της γης.

18 Ησαν δε οι υιοι του Νωε, οι εξελθοντες εκ της κιβωτου, Σημ και Χαμ και Ιαφεθ. Ο δε Χαμ ητο πατηρ του Χανααν.

19 Οι τρεις ουτοι ειναι οι υιοι του Νωε, και εκ τουτων διεσπαρησαν εις πασαν την γην.

20 Και ηρχισεν ο Νωε να ηναι γεωργος και εφυτευσεν αμπελωνα·

21 και επιεν εκ του οινου και εμεθυσθη, και εγυμνωθη εν τη σκηνη αυτου.

22 Και ειδεν ο Χαμ, ο πατηρ του Χανααν, την γυμνωσιν του πατρος αυτου· και ανηγγειλε τουτο προς τους δυο αδελφους αυτου εξω.

23 Και λαβοντες ο Σημ και ο Ιαφεθ το ενδυμα, επεθηκαν αυτο επι τα δυο αυτων νωτα· και βαδισαντες οπισθονωτα, εσκεπασαν την γυμνωσιν του πατρος αυτων· και τα προσωπα αυτων ησαν προς τα οπισω, και την γυμνωσιν του πατρος αυτων δεν ειδον.

24 Ανανηψας δε ο Νωε απο του οινου αυτου, εμαθεν οσα εκαμεν εις αυτον ο υιος αυτου ο νεωτερος.

25 Και ειπεν, Επικαταρατος ο Χανααν· δουλος των δουλων θελει εισθαι εις τους αδελφους αυτου.

26 Και ειπεν, Ευλογητος Κυριος ο Θεος του Σημ. Και ο Χανααν θελει εισθαι δουλος εις αυτον·

27 ο Θεος θελει πλατυνει τον Ιαφεθ, και θελει κατοικησει εν ταις σκηναις του Σημ, ο δε Χανααν θελει εισθαι δουλος εις αυτον·

28 Και εζησεν ο Νωε μετα τον κατακλυσμον τριακοσια πεντηκοντα ετη.

29 Και εγειναν πασαι αι ημεραι του Νωε εννεακοσια πεντηκοντα ετη· και απεθανε.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1096

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1096. Blessed be Jehovah the God of Shem. That this signifies every good for those who worship the Lord from internals, is evident from the signification of “blessed.” Blessing involves every good: celestial, spiritual, and natural; and all these are signified by “blessing” in the internal sense. In the external sense, by “blessing” is signified every worldly, corporeal, and earthly good; but these, if they be a blessing, must necessarily be so from internal blessing; for this alone is blessing, because it is eternal, and is conjoined with every felicity, and is the very being of blessings. For what really is, unless it is eternal? Every other being ceases to be. It was customary among the ancients to say, “Blessed be Jehovah;” by which they meant that from Him is every blessing, that is, every good; and the same was also a formula of thanksgiving because the Lord blesses, and has blessed; as in David (Psalms 28:6; 31:21; 41:13; 66:20; 68:19, 35; 72:18-19; 89:52; 119:12; 124:6; 135:21; 144:1; and many other places).

[2] “Blessed be Jehovah” is said here because Shem, or the internal church, is the subject that is being treated of, which church is said to be internal, from charity. In charity the Lord is present, who is here called “Jehovah God.” But He is not so called in the external church, for although the Lord is present in it, He is not present as He is in the man of the internal church. For the man of the external church still believes that he does the goods of charity from himself, and therefore when the subject treated of is the man of the external church, the Lord is called “God” as in the following verse concerning Japheth: “God shall enlarge Japheth.” That every good is the portion of those who worship the Lord from internals, is evident also from the order of things; for the order is this: from the Lord is everything celestial, from the celestial is everything spiritual, from the spiritual is everything natural. This is the order of the coming forth of all things, and therefore it is the order of influx.

[3] The celestial is love to the Lord and toward the neighbor. Where there is no love, the connection is broken, and the Lord is not present, who flows in solely through the celestial, that is, through love. When there is no celestial, there cannot possibly be any spiritual, because everything spiritual is through the celestial from the Lord. The spiritual is faith, and therefore there is no faith except through charity, or love, from the Lord. It is similar with the natural. According to this same order do all goods flow in; from which it follows that those have every good who worship the Lord from internals, that is, from charity; whereas those who do not worship Him from charity have no good, save such as counterfeits what is good, but in itself is evil, such as the delight of hatreds and adulteries, which regarded in itself is nothing but an excrementitious delight, into which also it is turned in the other life.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.

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Genesis 8

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1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3 The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

8 He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

13 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

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

19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

   

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