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1 Mose 32:13

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13 Und er übernachtete daselbst in jener Nacht; und er nahm von dem, was in seine Hand gekommen war, ein Geschenk für seinen Bruder Esau:

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Arcana Coelestia #4308

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4308. In the internal historical sense 'He said, Why is it that you ask my name?' means that they did not acknowledge evil spirits to be the origin. This is clear from what has been stated immediately above in 4307.

  
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