Since the sun represents the Lord, the early morning and sunrise represent a state of enlightenment with a new and clear understanding coming after a time of darkness. There are many ways this representation appears in modern life. For one, it’s long been tradition to orient churches with the sanctuary in the east, toward the rising sun. People grappling with a problem often decide to “sleep on it,” anticipating that answers will be more clear in the morning. And we actually use “dawn” as a verb for sudden enlightenment: “As he stared out the window, it dawned on him that the answer had been in his hands all along.”

10651. 'And you take their daughters for your sons' means affections for evil linked to truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'taking', when it refers to marriage, as being linked to; from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections for good, and in the contrary sense as affections for evil, dealt with in 2362, 3963; and from the meaning of 'sons' as truths, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 3373, 4257, 9807, 10490.