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Genesis 47:20

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20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6155

Studere hoc loco

  
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6155. 'And so it will be at ingatherings' means the fruits from this. This is clear from the meaning of 'ingatherings' as the fruits, for the harvest which comes forth from the field is the fruits of that field.

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

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Genesis 41:34

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34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.