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1 Mose 24:32

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32 Also führte er den Mann ins Haus und zäumte die Kamele ab und gab ihnen Stroh und Futter und Wasser, zu waschen seine Füße und die Füße der Männer, die mit ihm waren,

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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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