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1 Mose 31:6

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6 Ihr selbst wisset ja, daß ich mit all meiner Kraft eurem Vater gedient habe.

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Arcana Coelestia #4064

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4064. Jacob hath taken all that was our father’s. That this signifies that all things of the good meant by “Jacob” had been given him therefrom (namely, from that mediate good) may be seen without explication. But that they had not been so given to him, is manifest from what follows. It was the sons of Laban who said this.

  
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