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Genesis 46:8

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8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.

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In Genesis 38:3; 26, this signifies the quality of evil derived from falsity from evil or the quality of the idolatry of the Jewish nation. (Arcana Coelestia 4819, 4826, 4913)

(Notae: Genesis 2, 38, 38:2)