Arcana Coelestia # 8053
8053. 'In the month of Abib' means the beginning of a new state. This is clear from the meaning of 'the month' as the end of the previous state and the beginning of the next, thus also a new state, dealt with in 3814. The fact that 'the month of Abib' means the beginning from which all the following states ensue is evident from what is said in verse 2 of the previous chapter about this month,
This month shall be for you the head of months; the first shall it be for you in the months of the year.
Deuteronomy 25:5-6
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If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
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It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
