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Genesis 5:30

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30 En Lamech leefde, nadat hij Noach gewonnen had, vijfhonderd vijf en negentig jaren; en hij gewon zonen en dochteren.

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Arcana Coelestia #491

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491. The same things are meant by 'sons and daughters' in verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, 30, of this chapter, but the character of a Church determines that of its 'sons and daughters', or goods and truths. Here they are truths and goods that men perceived most clearly, for they have regard to the Most Ancient Church, the head and forefather of all other Churches that followed after it.

  
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