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Genesis 24:23

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23 And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father's house to lodge?

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Arcana Coelestia #3150

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3150. And he said, I will not eat. That this signifies refusal, that is, that they were not yet to be so appropriated, is evident without explication.

  
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