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Genesis 13:10

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10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.

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Arcana Coelestia #1586

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1586. 'That the whole of it was wall-watered' means that they, that is to say, goods and truths, are able to grow there. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'being well-watered', for which see what has appeared already in 108.

  
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