9373. Come up unto Jehovah. That this signifies conjunction with the Lord, is evident from the signification of “coming up,” as being to be raised toward interior things (see n. 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817, 6007), consequently also to be conjoined (n. 8760). That it denotes conjunction with the Lord, is because by “Jehovah” in the Word is meant the the Lord, (n. 1343, 1736, 1793, 2004, 2005, 2018, 2025, 2921, 3023, 3035, 5663, 6280, 6303, 6905, 8274, 8864, 9315). A secret which also lies hidden in the internal sense of these words, is that the sons of Jacob, over whom Moses was the head, were not called and chosen; but they themselves insisted that Divine worship should be instituted among them (according to wh at has been said in n. 4290, 4293); and therefore it is here said, “and He said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah,” as if not Jehovah, but another, had said that he should come up. For the same reason in what follows it is said that “the people should not go up” (verse 2); and that “Jehovah sent not His hand unto the sons of Israel who were set apart” (verse 11); and that “the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel” (verse 17); and lastly that Moses, being called the seventh day, “entered into the midst of the cloud.” For by “the cloud” is meant the Word in the letter (n. 5922, 6343, 6752, 6832, 8106, 8443, 8781); and with the sons of Jacob the Word was separated from its internal sense, because they were in external worship without internal, as can be clearly seen from the fact that now, as before, they said, “all the words which Jehovah hath spoken we will do” (verse 3); and yet scarcely forty days afterward they worshiped a golden calf instead of Jehovah; which shows that this was hidden in their hearts while they were saying with their lips that they would serve Jehovah alone. But nevertheless those who are meant by “the called and the chosen” are those who are in internal worship, and who from internal worship are in external; that is, those who are in love to and faith in the Lord, and from this in love toward the neighbor.
Arcana Coelestia #491
491. The same things are signified by “sons” and “daughters” in this chapter (verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, 30), but such as is the church, such are the “sons and daughters” that is, such are the goods and truths; the truths and goods here spoken of are such as were distinctly perceived, because they are predicated of the Most Ancient Church, the principal and parent of all the other and succeeding churches.
Genesis 11
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The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
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They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
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They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
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Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
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Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
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Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
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So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
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Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
10
This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
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Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
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Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
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and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
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Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
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Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
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Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
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Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
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Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
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Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
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Sarai was barren. She had no child.
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Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
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The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
