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Genesis 11:29

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29 Ja Aabram ja Naahor võtsid enestele naised; Aabrami naise nimi oli Saarai ja Naahori naise nimi oli Milka, Haarani tütar; Haaran oli Milka ja Jiska isa.

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Chaldea

  

Chaldea was a land lying along the Euphrates river near its mouth, south of Babylon, part of what is now southern Iraq. It was a land of the Lord's second great church, the Ancient Church, which at its height had a wealth of knoweldge through its own sacred scriptures and the correspondences of nature. But as this church declined Chaldea came to represent people who use truths for evil purposes and thus profane and falsify them. Abram was born in Chaldea because of the greatness it had represented, but had to leave because of what it had become.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 412

  
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412. Internal Meaning of Genesis, Chapter 11

1-9 The beginning of Babylon and its destruction.

10-32 Continuation respecting the various states of that church and the nature of them even to the end, when it became idolatrous and magical.

  
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