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Genesis 31:12

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12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the rams that leap upon the flock are ringstraked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban does to thee.

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Arcana Coelestia #4155

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4155. 'And Rachel had taken the teraphim' means interior natural truths which came from the Divine. This is clear from the representation of 'Rachel' as the affection for interior truth, dealt with already, and from the meaning of 'the teraphim' as truths which come from the Divine, 4111, and so interior truths, the nature of which and the place where they reside being described immediately above in 4154.

  
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