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Exodus 34:22

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22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [even] of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

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Exodus 23:24

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24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #354

Studere hoc loco

  
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354. Jehovah had respect for Abel and his gift' means that things constituting charity and all worship deriving from it were acceptable to the Lord. This has been explained already under what 'Abel' means and under 'gift'.

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