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Peradventure there shall lack five of the fiftyrighteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
2224. Jehovah said. That this signifies perception, is evident from the signification of “saying,” as being to perceive (see n. 1898, 1919, 2080). Here, as it is Jehovah who “said,” the meaning is that the Lord perceived from the Divine.
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