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Genesis 30:14

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14 Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits.

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Arcana Coelestia #3949

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3949. 'And Jacob came from the field in the evening' means the good of truth in a state of good, yet also in obscurity such as envelops the natural. This is clear from the representation of 'Jacob' as the good of natural truth, dealt with in 3669, 3677, 3775, 3829; from the meaning of 'the field' as the Church as regards good, dealt with in 2971, and so as good itself; and from the meaning of 'evening' as obscurity, dealt with in 3056, 3833.

  
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