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Genesis 30:16

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16 And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #4034

Studere hoc loco

  
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4034. Verse 43 And the man became very very prosperous, 1 and he had many flocks, and servant-girls and slaves, and camels and asses.

'The man became very very prosperous' means multiplication. 'And he had many flocks' means resulting interior goods and truths. 'And servant-girls and slaves' means intermediate goods and truths. 'And camels and asses' means the rather external and the fully external truths of good.

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1. literally, spread himself exceedingly exceedingly

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