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And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,
1-24 Fall and end of that church, as they departed from the celestial to the natural man, from this they had intelligence from what was their own [proprium] in place of intelligence from the Lord.
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