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Genesis 47:19

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19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6085

Studere hoc loco

  
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6085. 'Let them dwell in the land of Goshen' means where the middle is. This is clear from the meaning of 'dwelling' as living, as immediately above in 6084; and from the meaning of 'the land of Goshen' as the middle or inmost part of the natural, dealt with in 5910, 6028, 6031, 6068.

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