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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 #4036

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4036. 'And he had many flocks' means resulting interior goods and truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'flocks' as goods and truths, dealt with in 343 - interior ones, 2566, 3783.

  
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