Wilderness of Beersheba
In Genesis 21:14, this signifies the state of wandering in the beginning, of people who have been introduced into the doctrinals of faith. (Arcana Coelestia 2679)
Deuteronomy 17:3-5
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and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;
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and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
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then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
