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Genesis 47:20

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20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

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Arcana Coelestia # 6079

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6079. 'For the famine is serious in the land of Canaan' means that there is a lack of such forms in the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the famine' as a lack of good, dealt with in 5893; and from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan' as the Church, also dealt with above, in 6067.

  
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