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Genesis 30:37

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37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #4000

Studere hoc loco

  
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4000. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats. That this signifies what is not from the good meant by “Laban,” mingled with evil and falsity in the goods of truth, is evident from what was said above (n. 3993, 3995), where similar words occur.

  
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