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Genesis 30:1

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1 And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.'

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Arcana Coelestia # 3925

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3925. And she conceived again, and Bilhah Rachel’s handmaid bare. That this signifies reception and acknowledgment, is evident from the signification of “conceiving,” as being reception; and from the signification of “bearing,” as being acknowledgment (n. 3319); and also from the signification of “handmaid,” as being a subserving means (n. 3913, 3917); for the subject here is a second general means that is of service for the conjunction of the internal man with the external.

  
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