Arcana Coelestia # 7841
7841. 'And you shall keep it' means the time and state of the initiation. This is clear from the meaning of the tenth day, from which the animal was to be kept until the fourteenth day, as the state of the initiation of the interiors, dealt with in 7831.
2 Kings 3:4
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Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he rendered to the king of Israel the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.
