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Genesis 12:1

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1 Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee:

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Arcana Coelestia #1452

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1452. And spread his tent. That this signifies the holy things of faith, is evident from the signification of a “tent,” as being the holy of love, and consequently the holy of faith from love, as before shown n. 414). That “he spread his tent,” there signifies that this was now beginning.

  
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