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Genesis 11:9

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9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

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Arcana Coelestia #1323

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1323. Verse 8. And Jehovah scattered them from thence upon the faces of all the earth; and they left off to build the city. “And Jehovah scattered them from thence upon the faces of all the earth,” signifies here, as before, that they were not acknowledged; “and they left off to build the city,” signifies that such doctrine was not received.

  
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