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Genesis 11:9

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9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #1349

Studere hoc loco

  
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1349. Verse 20. And Reu lived thirty-two years, and he begot Serug. 'Reu lived thirty-two years' means the beginning of the sixth state, 'Reu' having the same meaning here as previously. 'And he begot Serug' means a derivative from it, 'Serug' being a nation so named from him as its forefather which means worship confined to externals

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