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Бытие 5

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1 Вот родословие Адама: когда Бог сотворил человека, по подобию Божию создал его,

2 мужчину и женщину сотворил их, и благословил их, и нарек им имя: человек, в день сотворения их.

3 Адам жил сто тридцать лет и родил сына по подобию своему по образу своему, и нарек ему имя: Сиф.

4 Дней Адама по рождении им Сифа было восемьсот лет, и родил он сынов и дочерей.

5 Всех же дней жизни Адамовой было девятьсот тридцать лет; и он умер.

6 Сиф жил сто пять лет и родил Еноса.

7 По рождении Еноса Сиф жил восемьсот семь лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

8 Всех же дней Сифовых было девятьсот двенадцать лет; и он умер.

9 Енос жил девяносто лет и родил Каинана.

10 По рождении Каинана Енос жил восемьсот пятнадцать лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

11 Всех же дней Еноса было девятьсот пять лет; и он умер.

12 Каинан жил семьдесят лет и родил Малелеила.

13 По рождении Малелеила Каинан жил восемьсот сорок лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

14 Всех же дней Каинана было девятьсот десять лет; и он умер.

15 Малелеил жил шестьдесят пять лет и родил Иареда.

16 По рождении Иареда Малелеил жил восемьсот тридцать лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

17 Всех же дней Малелеила было восемьсот девяносто пять лет; и онумер.

18 Иаред жил сто шестьдесят два года и родил Еноха.

19 По рождении Еноха Иаред жил восемьсот лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

20 Всех же дней Иареда было девятьсот шестьдесят два года; и онумер.

21 Енох жил шестьдесят пять лет и родил Мафусала.

22 И ходил Енох пред Богом, по рождении Мафусала, триста лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

23 Всех же дней Еноха было триста шестьдесят пять лет.

24 И ходил Енох пред Богом; и не стало его, потому что Бог взял его.

25 Мафусал жил сто восемьдесят семь лет и родил Ламеха.

26 По рождении Ламеха Мафусал жил семьсот восемьдесят два года и родил сынов и дочерей.

27 Всех же дней Мафусала было девятьсот шестьдесят девять лет; ион умер.

28 Ламех жил сто восемьдесят два года и родил сына,

29 и нарек ему имя: Ной, сказав: он утешит нас в работе нашей и в трудах рук наших при возделывании земли, которую проклял Господь.

30 И жил Ламех по рождении Ноя пятьсот девяносто пять лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

31 Всех же дней Ламеха было семьсот семьдесят семь лет; и он умер.

32 Ною было пятьсот лет и родил Ной Сима, Хама и Иафета.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #645

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645. 'Bitumening it inside and out with bitumen' means preservation from the deluge of evil desires. This is clear from what has been stated already. In fact the member of this Church had first of all to be reformed as regards the things of his understanding. This was why he was preserved from the deluge of evil desires which would have destroyed the whole work of reformation. The original text does not in fact read 'bitumened with bitumen', but uses an expression which denotes protection and is derived from a root meaning to make satisfaction or to appease, and so embodies the same idea. Satisfying or appeasing the Lord is protection from the deluge of evil.

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

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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.