Arcana Coelestia # 1331
1331. That 'Shem' is internal worship in general is clear from what has just been said. The nature of the internal worship of this Church is evident from the people referred to one after another from Shem, that is to say, they all had to do with factual knowledge. Further confirmation of this is gained from the numbers of the years when those numbers are examined more closely and broken down into their components.
Genesis 11:27
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Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
