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創世記 2

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1 こうして天と地と、その万象とが完成した。

2 第七にその作業を終えられた。すなわち、そのすべての作業を終って第七に休まれた。

3 はその第七祝福して、これを聖別された。がこのに、そのすべての創造のわざを終って休まれたからである。

4 これが天地創造の由来である。

5 地にはまだ野の木もなく、また野のもはえていなかった。なるが地にを降らせず、また土を耕す人もなかったからである。

6 しかし地から泉がわきあがって土の全を潤していた。

7 なるは土のちりで人を造り、命の息をそのに吹きいれられた。そこで人は生きた者となった。

8 なるは東のかた、エデンに一つの園を設けて、その造った人をそこに置かれた。

9 またなるは、見て美しく、食べる良いすべてのを土からはえさせ、更園の中央命のと、善悪を知るとをはえさせられた。

10 また一つのエデンから流れ出て園を潤し、そこから分れてつのとなった。

11 その第一の名はピソンといい、金のあるハビラの全地をめぐるもので、

12 その地の金は良く、またそこはブドラクと、しまめのうとを産した。

13 第二のの名はギホンといい、クシの全地をめぐるもの。

14 の名はヒデケルといい、アッスリヤの東を流れるもの。第はユフラテである。

15 なるは人を連れて行ってエデンの園に置き、これを耕させ、これを守らせられた。

16 なるはその人に命じて言われた、「あなたは園のどのからでも心のままに取って食べてよろしい。

17 しかし善悪を知るからは取って食べてはならない。それを取って食べると、きっと死ぬであろう」。

18 またなるは言われた、「人がひとりでいるのは良くない。彼のために、ふさわしい助け手を造ろう」。

19 そしてなるは野のすべての獣と、空のすべてのとを土で造り、人のところへ連れてきて、彼がそれにどんな名をつけるかを見られた。人がすべて生き物に与える名は、その名となるのであった。

20 それで人は、すべての家畜と、空のと、野のすべてのとに名をつけたが、人にはふさわしい助け手が見つからなかった。

21 そこでなるは人を深く眠らせ、眠った時に、そのあばら骨の一つを取って、その所をでふさがれた。

22 なるは人から取ったあばら骨でひとりの女を造り、人のところへ連れてこられた。

23 そのとき、人は言った。「これこそ、ついにわたしの、わたしの。男から取ったものだから、これを女と名づけよう」。

24 それで人はその父とを離れて、と結び合い、一体となるのである。

25 人とそのとは、ふたりともであったが、恥ずかしいとは思わなかった。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #658

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658. These three degrees, which in general are called those of man’s intellectual things, namely, understanding, reason, and memory-knowledge, are likewise signified, as before said, by the windows of the three stories of the temple at Jerusalem (1 Kings 6:4, 6, 8), and also as above by the rivers which went forth out of the Garden of Eden in the east. The “east” there signifies the Lord; “Eden” love, which is of the will; the “garden” intelligence thence derived; the “rivers” wisdom, reason, and memory-knowledge (concerning which see what was said before, Genesis 2:10-14).

  
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Genesis 6

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1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

22 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.