4152. Verses 33-35. And Laban came into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two handmaids, and found them not; and he went out of Leah’s tent, and came into Rachel’s tent. And Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel’s straw, and sat upon them; and Laban felt about all the tent, and found them not. And she said to her father, Let there not be anger in the eyes of my lord, that I cannot rise up before thee, for the way of women is upon me. And he searched, and found not the teraphim. “And Laban came into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two handmaids, and found them not,” signifies that in their holy things there were not such truths; “and he went out of Leah’s tent, and came into Rachel’s tent,” signifies the holy of that truth; “and Rachel had taken the teraphim,” signifies interior natural truths which were from the Divine; “and put them in the camel’s straw,” signifies in memory-knowledges; “and sat upon them” signifies that they are interior; “and Laban felt about all the tent, and found them not,” signifies that that which was his own was not there; “and she said to her father,” signifies to good; “let there not be anger in the eyes of my lord, that I cannot rise up before thee,” signifies that they cannot be revealed; “for the way of women is upon me,” signifies that as yet they were among unclean things; “and he searched, and found not the teraphim,” signifies that they were not his.

3782. And behold Rachel his daughter. That this signifies the affection of interior truth, is evident from the representation of Rachel, as being the affection of interior truth; and of Leah, as being the affection of exterior truth, concerning which in what follows.