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1 Mosebok 21

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1 Og Herren så til Sara som han hadde sagt, og Herren gjorde med Sara som han hadde lovt.

2 Sara blev fruktsommelig og fødte Abraham en sønn i hans alderdom på den fastsatte tid som Gud hadde talt til ham om.

3 Og Abraham kalte den sønn han hadde fått, den som Sara hadde født ham, Isak.

4 Og Abraham omskar Isak, sin sønn, da han var åtte dager gammel, således som Gud hadde befalt ham.

5 Abraham var hundre år gammel da han fikk sin sønn Isak.

6 Da sa Sara: Gud har gjort det så at jeg må le; alle som hører dette, vil le av mig.

7 Og hun sa: Hvem skulde vel ha sagt til Abraham at Sara gir barn å die? Og nu har jeg født ham en sønn i hans alderdom.

8 Og gutten vokste op og blev avvent; og Abraham gjorde et stort gjestebud den dag Isak blev avvent.

9 Og Sara så at egypterkvinnen Hagars sønn, som hun hadde født Abraham, spottet,

10 og hun sa til Abraham: Driv ut denne trælkvinne og hennes sønn! For denne trælkvinnes sønn skal ikke arve med min sønn, med Isak.

11 Dette gjorde Abraham meget ondt for hans sønns skyld.

12 Men Gud sa til Abraham: La det ikke gjøre dig ondt for guttens og for din trælkvinnes skyld! Lyd Sara i alt det hun sier til dig! For i Isak skal det nevnes dig en ætt.

13 Men også trælkvinnens sønn vil jeg gjøre til et folk, fordi han er din sønn.

14 Da stod Abraham tidlig op om morgenen og tok brød og en skinnsekk med vann og gav Hagar og la det på hennes skulder; han gav henne også gutten med og lot henne fare. Og hun gikk avsted og for vill i Be'erseba-ørkenen.

15 Da det var forbi med vannet i sekken, kastet hun gutten fra sig under en busk

16 og gikk bort og satte sig et stykke ifra, sa langt som et bueskudd; for hun tenkte: Jeg vil ikke se på at gutten dør. Så satt hun et stykke ifra og brast i gråt.

17 Men Gud hørte gutten ynke sig, og Guds engel ropte til Hagar fra himmelen og sa til henne: Hvad fattes dig, Hagar? Frykt ikke! For Gud har hørt gutten ynke sig der han ligger.

18 eis dig, løft gutten op og hold ham ved hånden! For jeg vil gjøre ham til et stort folk.

19 Og Gud åpnet hennes øine, så hun så en brønn; da gikk hun dit og fylte sekken med vann og gav gutten å drikke.

20 Og Gud var med gutten; han blev stor og bodde i ørkenen, og da han vokste til, blev han bueskytter.

21 Han bosatte sig i ørkenen Paran, og hans mor tok en hustru til ham fra Egypten.

22 Ved denne tid kom Abimelek og Pikol, hans hærfører, og sa til Abraham: Gud er med dig i alt det du gjør.

23 Så tilsverg mig nu her ved Gud at du ikke vil fare med svik mot mig og mine barn og min ætt! Likesom jeg har vist godhet mot dig, så skal du gjøre det samme mot mig og mot det land du bor i som fremmed.

24 Da sa Abraham: Ja, det skal jeg tilsverge dig.

25 Men Abraham gikk i rette med Abimelek for en brønn som Abimeleks tjenere hadde tatt med vold.

26 Da sa Abimelek: Jeg vet ikke hvem som har gjort dette; hverken har du sagt mig det, eller har jeg hørt det før idag.

27 Da tok Abraham småfe og storfe og gav Abimelek, og de gjorde en pakt med hverandre.

28 Og Abraham stilte syv får av småfeet for sig selv.

29 Da sa Abimelek til Abraham Hvad skal disse syv får her som du har stilt for sig selv?

30 Han svarte: Disse syv får skal du ta imot av mig; det skal være til et vidnesbyrd for mig at jeg har gravd denne brønn.

31 Derfor kalte de dette sted Be'erseba*; for der gjorde de begge sin ed. / {* Edsbrønnen.}

32 Så gjorde de da en pakt i Be'erseba; og Abimelek og Pikol, hans hærfører, brøt op og vendte tilbake til filistrenes land.

33 Og Abraham plantet en tamarisk i Be'erseba, og der påkalte han Herrens, den evige Guds navn.

34 Og Abraham bodde som fremmed i filistrenes land en lang tid.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2669

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2669. 'Also, the son of the servant-girl I will make into a nation' means the spiritual Church which was to receive the good of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'the son of the servant-girl' and also of 'a nation'. 'The son of the servant-girl' or Ishmael, while he was in Abraham's house, that is, while he was with Abraham, represented the Lord's first rational, as shown in 2652, 2653, 2657, 2658. But now he has been separated he takes on another representation, namely that of the spiritual Church, 2666. A similar change of representation occurred previously with Lot who while with Abraham represented the Lord's external man, 1428, 1429, 1434, 1547, 1597, 1598, 1698, but once he had been separated from Abraham he represented the external Church and many states of that Church, 2324, 2371, 2399, 2422, 2459, and in the whole of Chapter 19. As regards 'nation' meaning good, see 1159, 1258-1260, 1416, 1849. Here the good of faith is meant since it has reference to the spiritual Church. Hence the words used here, 'Also, the son of the servant-girl I will make into a nation', mean the spiritual Church which was to receive the good of faith, which is charity.

[2] The Lord's kingdom in heaven and on earth is celestial and spiritual, and therefore angels are distinguished into those who are celestial and those who are spiritual, see 202, 337. To celestial angels the Lord appears as the Sun, to spiritual as the Moon, 1053, 1521, 1529-1531. Men in a similar way are distinguished into those who are celestial and those who are spiritual. Those who belonged to the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood were celestial, dealt with in 607, 608, 784, 895, 920, 1114-1125, while those who belonged to the Ancient Church which existed after the Flood were spiritual, dealt with in 609, 640, 641, 765. For what the difference was between those two Churches, see 567, 607, and for what the difference is between what is celestial and what is spiritual, 81, 1155, 1577, 1824, 2048, 2069, 2088, 2227, 2507. The celestial are referred to by the Lord in the following,

He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out. And when He has led out His own sheep He goes before them, and the sheep follow Him, for they know His voice.

The spiritual however are referred to in these words,

And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd. John 10:3-4, 16.

The good of love is that which constitutes the celestial Church, but the good of faith that which constitutes the spiritual Church. The truth of faith does not constitute the Church but leads into it.

  
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Genesis 7

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1 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Clean animals, animals that are not Clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.