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Genesis 27:38

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38 And Esau said to his father, Is that the only blessing you have, my father? give a blessing to me, even me! And Esau was overcome with weeping.

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Arcana Coelestia #3530

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3530. 'And I shall bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing' means a separation. This is clear from the meaning of 'a curse' as a separation or turning away from good, dealt with in 245, 379, 1423, and from the meaning of 'blessing' as being joined to good, dealt with in 3504, 3514.

  
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