7563. 'Caused his servants and his livestock to flee to the houses' means that they were stored away and placed in safe keeping interiorly. This is clear from the meaning of 'servants' as the things in the natural mind, as immediately above in 7562; from the meaning of 'livestock' as truth and good, also dealt with above, in 7556; and from the meaning of 'the houses' as the things present inwardly in a person, where goodness and truth from the Lord are stored away and placed in safe keeping, dealt with in 7560. From this it is evident that 'he caused his servants and his livestock to flee to the houses' means that the truths and forms of good which are in the natural mind, that is to say, the things which are the Lord's, have been gathered and have been stored away and placed in safe keeping interiorly.

3669. 'And you will be an assembly of peoples' means abundance. This becomes clear without explanation. 'An assembly of peoples' in particular has reference to truths; for 'peoples' in the Word means those who are governed by truth, see 1259, 1260, 2928, 3581, whereas 'nations' means those who are governed by good, 1259, 1260, 1416, 1849. The reason why the phrase 'an assembly of peoples' is used here is that the subject is the good of truth, represented by 'Jacob'; for good that results from truth is one thing, good from which truth stems is another. Good which results from truth is what 'Jacob' represents here, and good from which truth stems is what 'Esau' represents. Good which results from truth is the inverse of good from which truth stems. Good which results from truth is the good that exists with those who are being regenerated before they have been made regenerate; but good from which truth stems exists with the same persons once they have become regenerate. For their state is an inverse one, see 3539, 3548, 3556, 3563, 3570, 3576, 3603.