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Genesis 33:1

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1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:

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1 Chronicles 29:10

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10 And David blessed Jehovah in the sight of all the congregation; and David said, blessed be thou, Jehovah, the God of our father Israel, for ever and ever.

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Arcana Coelestia #4401

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4401. 'And he set up an altar there' means interior worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'setting up an altar' as worship, for the altar was the chief representative of the Lord, 921, 2777, 2811, and therefore the chief feature of worship. By worship here is meant interior worship originating in the Divine Spiritual, dealt with in the paragraph following this.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.