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1 Mose 24:13

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13 Siehe, ich stehe hier bei dem Wasserbrunnen, und der Leute Töchter in dieser Stadt werden herauskommen, Wasser zu schöpfen.

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Arcana Coelestia #3045

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3045. 'And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master' means that the natural man was bound, as regards its power, to the good of conjugial love. This is clear from what has been stated in 3021, where also the same words occur.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Numbers 5:21

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21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;