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Genesis 34:24

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24 And to Hamor and to Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city: and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #4505

Studere hoc loco

  
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4505. 'Their flocks, and their herds' means that they destroyed rational good and natural good. This is clear from the meaning of 'flocks' as rational good, and from the meaning of 'herds' as natural good, dealt with in 2566.

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

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Genesis 49:4

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4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it; he went up to my couch.