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Genesis 49:4

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4 Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

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Arcana Coelestia #6350

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6350. He went up on my couch. That this signifies that it contaminated spiritual good in the natural, is evident from the signification of “going up on a couch,” as being to contaminate by profaning (of which just above, n. 6348); and from the representation of Israel, on whose couch he went up, as being spiritual good in the natural (n. 6340).

  
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