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Genesis 28:2

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2 But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #3710

Studere hoc loco

  
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3710. 'And in your seed' means and to truth, that is to say, those truths taught by doctrine will be joined to it. This is clear from the meaning of 'seed' as truth, dealt with in 29, 1025, 1447, 1610, 2848, 3373.

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