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Genesis 26:1

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1 Da der opstod Hungersnød i Landet - en anden end den forrige på Abrahams Tid - begav Isak sig til Filisterkongen Abimelek i Gerar.


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Arcana Coelestia #3450

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3450. Verses 28-29 And they said, We saw clearly that Jehovah was with you, and we said, Let there be now a solemn agreement between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you. If you do us no harm as we have not touched you and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace; you are now the blessed of Jehovah.

'They said, We saw clearly that Jehovah was with you' means that they knew the Divine to be present within it. 'And we said, Let there be now a solemn agreement between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you' means that their matters of doctrine concerning faith, regarded in themselves, should not be refused recognition. 'That you do us no harm as we have not touched you and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace' means that they had not done and would not do violence to the internal sense of the Word. 'You are now the blessed of Jehovah' means that it came from the Divine.

  
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