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Genesis 30:33

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33 And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when thou comest about my hire, before thy face: all that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, let that be stolen with me.

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Arcana Coelestia #4019

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4019. And the flocks grew warm at the rods. That this signifies the effect from His own power, is evident from the signification of “growing warm” as being the effect, that is, of the affection (n. 4018); and from the signification of the “rods,” as being His own power (see above, n. 4013, 4015).

  
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