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Genesis 47:24

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24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #6080

Studere hoc loco

  
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6080. 'And now let your servants, we beg you, dwell in the land of Goshen' means so that they may live in the middle of them. This is clear from the meaning of 'dwelling' as living, dealt with in 1293, 3384, 3613, 4451, 6051; 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.