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Genesis 47:6

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6 Akal wa n Maṣar ih'ak əfus zəzzəbbət tan daɣ aganna w' ofan n akal. Əggəzanet aṃadal wa n Gošen. Kud tordeɣ as əhan tan wiyyaḍ ən təfləst əṣṣannen əššəɣəl ən təməḍint wəllen, taga taṇat n aharay nin daɣ fassan nasan.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6079

Studere hoc loco

  
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6079. 'For the famine is serious in the land of Canaan' means that there is a lack of such forms in the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the famine' as a lack of good, dealt with in 5893; and from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan' as the Church, also dealt with above, in 6067.

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