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Genesis 3:19

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19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

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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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