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Genesis 3:11

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11 And he said to him: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?

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Arcana Coelestia #284

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284. Of the fifth posterity, which was deprived of all good and truth, and was reduced to the state in which they had been previous to regeneration, which is meant by his being “sent forth out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken” (verse 23).

  
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