Genesis 9
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And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
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Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
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But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
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And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
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And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
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And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
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And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
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And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
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And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
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I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
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And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
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And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
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And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
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And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
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These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
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And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
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And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
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And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
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And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
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And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
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And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Arcana Coelestia #1778
1778. Genesis 15
1. After these events 1 the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am a shield to you, your exceedingly great reward.
2. And Abram said, O Lord Jehovih, what will You give me, seeing that I go childless, 2 and the steward of my house is this Damascene, Eliezer?
3. And Abram said, See, to me you have not given seed, and behold, a son of my house is my heir.
4. And behold, the word of Jehovah came to him, saying, This man will not be your heir, but he who comes out of your own loins will be your heir.
5. And He brought him outside and said, Look, now, towards heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So will your seed be.
6. And he believed in Jehovah, and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.
7. And He said to him, I am Jehovah, who brought you forth out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit.
8. And he said, O Lord Jehovih, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?
9. And He said to him, Take for Me 3 a three year old heifer, and a three year old she-goat, and a three year old ram, a turtle dove and a fledgling.
10. And he took for himself all these, and parted each of them down the middle and laid each part opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut apart.
11. And birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12. And as the sun was going down a deep sleep came over Abram, and, behold, a dread of a great darkness was coming over him.
13. And He said to Abram, Know for sure that your seed will be strangers in a land not theirs. And they will serve them, 4 and these will afflict them for four hundred years.
14. And also the nation which they are going to serve will I judge; and afterwards they will go out with great acquisitions.
15. And you will come to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
16. And in the fourth generation they will return from here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet come to a close.
17. And the sun went down and there was thick darkness; and behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch which passed between those pieces.
18. On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river, the river Phrath. 5
19. The Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
20. And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
21. And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
CONTENTS
Continued here in the internal sense are matters concerning the Lord after He had undergone in childhood the very severe conflicts brought about by temptations - conflicts directed against the love He cherished towards the entire human race, and in particular towards the Church. As He was therefore anxious about the future state of these, a promise was made to Him. But at the same time He was shown what the state of the Church was to become in its final days, when it was beginning to breathe its last, but nevertheless that a new Church would gather strength to take the place of the previous one; and the heavenly kingdom would be vastly increased.
Footnotes:
1. literally, words
2. literally, and I am walking childless
3. The Latin means for you, but the Hebrew means for Me.
4. i.e. as slaves
5. i.e. the Euphrates
