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Genesis 30:41

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41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

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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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