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Genesis 10:20

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20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

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Soul going forth and dying

  

'The soul going forth and dying,' as in Genesis 35:18, signifies the extreme of temptation, which is when the old self dies and the new one receives life.

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 4590)