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Numbers 1:34

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34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Commentarius

 

Thirteen years

  

'The thirteenth year' in Genesis 14:4 signifies the beginning of the Lord's temptations in childhood.

In Genesis 17:25, this signifies a state of holy remains.

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 2109)