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Hesekiel 16:2

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2 Menschensohn, tue Jerusalem seine Greuel kund und sprich:

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Arcana Coelestia #7457

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7457. 'We will go a way of three days into the wilderness' means that they would remove themselves altogether, so as to be in freedom. This is clear from the meaning of 'going a way of three days into the wilderness' as removing themselves altogether. That this is the meaning follows from what the internal sense above contains - that they could not worship God in a place nearby, in the presence of those from hell, dealt with above in 7452, 7454-7456. So they would have to remove themselves altogether, so as to be in freedom.

  
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Leviticus 24:23

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23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.