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Genesis 12:8

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8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

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Arcana Coelestia #2721

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2721. Verse 33 And he planted a grove in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of [Jehovah,] the God of Eternity.

'He planted a grove in Beersheba' means doctrine with the cognitions composing it and the nature of it. 'And he called on the name of [Jehovah,] the God of Eternity' means worship from it.

  
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