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Genesis 30:13

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13 And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me Happy: and she called his name Asher.

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Arcana Coelestia #3930

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3930. 'Leah saw that she had stopped bearing' means that no other external truths had been acknowledged. This is clear from the representation of 'Leah' as external truth, dealt with in 3793, 3819; and from the meaning of 'bearing' as acknowledging in faith and in action, dealt with in 3905, 3915, 3919. Consequently 'Leah had stopped bearing' in the internal sense means that no other external truths had been acknowledged.

  
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