Genesi 11:23
To many Protestant and Evangelical Italians, the Bibles translated by Giovanni Diodati are an important part of their history. Diodati’s first Italian Bible edition was printed in 1607, and his second in 1641. He died in 1649. Throughout the 1800s two editions of Diodati’s text were printed by the British Foreign Bible Society. This is the more recent 1894 edition, translated by Claudiana.
Arcana Coelestia #1279
1279. Genesis 11
1. And the whole earth was of one lip, and its words were one.
2. And so it was that, when they travelled away from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
3. And they said, one man to the next, Come, let us make bricks, and let us burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had bitumen for clay.
4. And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, and its head in heaven; and let us make a name for ourselves, lest perhaps we are scattered over the face 1 of the whole earth.
5. And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of man were building.
6. And Jehovah said, See, they are one people, and they all have one lip, and this they have started to do; and now they will not be held back from anything which they have thought of doing.
7. Come, let us go down, and let us there confound their lip so that they do not hear each man the lip of his companion.
8. And Jehovah scattered them from there over the face 1 of the whole earth; and they left off building the city.
9. Therefore He called the name of it Babel, because there Jehovah confounded the lip of the whole earth; and from there Jehovah scattered them over the face 1 of the whole earth.
10. These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a son of a hundred years, and he begot Arpachshad two years after the Flood.
11. And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.
12. And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and he begot Shelah.
13. And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years; and he begot sons and daughters.
14. And Shelah lived thirty years, and he begot Eber.
15. And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years; and he begot sons and daughters.
16. And Eber lived thirty-four years, and he begot Peleg.
17. And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years; and he begot sons and daughters.
18. And Peleg lived thirty years, and he begot Reu.
19. And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years; and he begot sons and daughters.
20. And Reu lived thirty-two years, and he begot Serug.
21. And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years; and he begot sons and daughters
22. And Serug lived thirty years, and he begot Nahor.
23. And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.
24. And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and he begot Terah.
25. And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years; and he begot sons and daughters.
26. And Terah lived seventy years, and he begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27. And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot.
28. And Haran died in the presence 2 of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29. And Abram and Nahor took to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milkah, the daughter of Haran, Milkah's father and Iskah's father.
30. And Sarai was barren; she had no offspring.
31. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son; and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came as far as Haran and remained there.
32. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
CONTENTS
The subject in verses 1-9 is the first Ancient Church, which came after the Flood.
Footnotes:
Genesis 10
1
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
3
The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5
Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
6
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
8
Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9
He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11
Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
12
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
13
Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
14
Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
15
Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
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the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,
17
the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
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the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
19
The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
21
To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
22
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
23
The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
24
Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
25
To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
26
Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
30
Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
31
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.
32
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
