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Numbers 1:44

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44 These are they that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.

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)