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Genesis 4:23

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23 And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sell: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.

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Arcana Coelestia #417

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417. Verse 21. And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of everyone that playeth upon the harp and organ. By “his brother’s name was Jubal” is signified the doctrine of the spiritual things of the same church; by the “father of everyone that playeth upon the harp and organ” are signified the truths and goods of faith.

  
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