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1 Lõn pedig, hogy az emberek sokasodni kezdének a föld színén, és leányaik születének.

2 És láták az Istennek fiai az emberek leányait, hogy szépek azok, és vevének magoknak feleségeket mind azok közûl, kiket megkedvelnek vala.

3 És monda az Úr: Ne maradjon az én lelkem örökké az emberben, mivelhogy õ test; legyen életének ideje száz húsz esztendõ.

4 Az óriások valának a földön abban az idõben, sõt még azután is, mikor az Isten fiai bémenének az emberek leányaihoz, és azok [gyermekeket] szûlének nékik. Ezek ama hatalmasok, kik eleitõl fogva híres-neves emberek voltak.

5 És látá az Úr, hogy megsokasult az ember gonoszsága a földön, és hogy szíve gondolatának minden alkotása szüntelen csak gonosz.

6 Megbáná azért az Úr, hogy teremtette az embert a földön, és bánkódék az õ szívében.

7 És monda az Úr: Eltörlöm az embert, a kit teremtettem, a földnek színérõl; az embert, a barmot, a csúszó-mászó állatokat, és az ég madarait; mert bánom, hogy azokat teremtettem.

8 De Noé kegyelmet talála az Úr elõtt.

9 Noénak pedig ez a története: Noé igaz, tökéletes férfiú vala a vele egykorúak között. Istennel jár vala Noé.

10 És nemze Noé három fiat: Sémet, Khámot és Jáfetet.

11 A föld pedig romlott vala Isten elõtt és megtelék a föld erõszakoskodással.

12 Tekinte azért Isten a földre, és ímé meg vala romolva, mert minden test megrontotta vala az õ útát a földön.

13 Monda azért Isten Noénak: Minden testnek vége elérkezett elõttem, mivelhogy a föld erõszakoskodással telt meg általok: és ímé elvesztem õket a földdel egybe.

14 Csinálj magadnak bárkát gófer fából, rekesztékeket csinálj a bárkában, és szurkozd meg belõl és kivûl szurokkal.

15 Ekképen csináld pedig azt: A bárka hoszsza háromszáz sing legyen, a szélessége ötven sing, és a magassága harmincz sing.

16 Ablakot csinálj a bárkán, és egy singnyire hagyd azt felülrõl; a bárka ajtaját pedig oldalt csináld; alsó, közép, és harmad padlásúvá csináld azt.

17 Én pedig ímé özönvizet hozok a földre, hogy elveszessek minden testet, a melyben élõ lélek van az ég alatt; valami a földön van, elvész.

18 De te veled szövetséget kötök, és bemégy a bárkába, te és a te fiaid, feleséged és a te fiaidnak feleségei teveled.

19 És minden élõbõl, s minden testbõl, mindenbõl kettõt-kettõt vígy be a bárkába, hogy veled együtt életben maradjanak: hímek és nõstények legyenek.

20 A madarak közûl az õ nemök szerint, a barmok közûl az õ nemök szerint és a földnek minden csúszó-mászó állatjai közûl az õ nemök szerint; mindenbõl kettõ-kettõ menjen be hozzád, hogy életben maradjanak.

21 Te pedig szerezz magadnak mindenféle eledelt, mely megehetõ, és takarítsd be magadhoz, hogy neked is, azoknak is legyen eledelûl.

22 És úgy cselekedék Noé; a mint parancsolta vala néki Isten, mindent akképen cselekedék.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #565

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565. 'Man' here means the human race at that period of time, in particular the race that was evil or corrupt. This becomes clear from the following verses,

My spirit will not reprove man for ever, in that he is flesh, verse 3;

The evil of man had been increased on the earth; and all the imagination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil, verse 5;

I will wipe out man whom I have created, verse 7; and in the next chapter,

All flesh creeping over the earth breathed its last; and every man, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life. 1 Genesis 7:21-22.

Concerning man it has been stated already that the Lord alone is Man, and that by virtue of Him every celestial man or celestial Church is called man, as is every other man or Church. And the same applies also to every individual, of whatever faith, to distinguish him from animals. But nobody is man or different from animals except, as has been stated, by virtue of remnants, which are the Lord's. Indeed remnants are what enable anyone to be called man; for it is on account of remnants which are the Lord's and so are obtained from Him that even the worst human being is called a man. For without remnants a person is in no sense a man but an utter beast.

Footnotes:

1. literally, of lives

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

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Genesis 2

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1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.

2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.

13 The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

18 Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.

21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

22 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of man."

24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.