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Exodus 18:26

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26 And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

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Arcana Coelestia #8716

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8716. 'And let them judge the people at all times' means arrangement in this order perpetually. This is clear from the meaning of 'judging' as the arrangement of truths, dealt with above in 8685; and from the meaning of 'at all times' as perpetually.

  
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