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And he also had prepared savoury dishes, and he brought [them] in to his father, and said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's venison, in order that thy soul may bless me.
3515. 'Before my death' means life thus within the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'death' as awakening into life, dealt with above in 3498, 3505.
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