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Genesis 4:12

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12 Kui sa harid maad, siis see ei anna sulle enam oma rammu. Sa pead maa peal olema hulkur ja põgenik!'

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Arcana Coelestia #432

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432. Verse 24. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. These words signify that they had extinguished the faith meant by “Cain” to do violence to which was sacrilege, and at the same time had extinguished the charity which should be born through faith, a far greater sacrilege, and that for this there was condemnation, that is, a “seventy and sevenfold avengement.”

  
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