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Genesis 34:12

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12 multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

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Spreading themselves

  

'Spreading themselves on the earth,' as in Genesis 8:17, signifies the internal self operating on the external.

(Notae: Arcana Coelestia 913)

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Genesis 34:21

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21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.