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Genesis 31:3

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3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

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Arcana Coelestia #4098

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4098. Are we not counted of him strangers? For he hath sold us. That this signifies that it had estranged them so that they no longer belonged to it, is evident from the signification of “being counted strangers,” as being to be estranged; and from the signification of “selling,” as being so to estrange that they would no longer belong to it.

  
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