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1 Mose 28:3

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3 Aber der allmächtige Gott segne dich und mache dich fruchtbar und mehre dich, daß du werdest ein Haufe Völker,

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Arcana Coelestia #3668

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3668. 'And make you fruitful and multiply you' means the goods and truths deriving from that joining together. This is clear from the use of 'being fruitful' as having reference to good, and of 'multiplying' as having reference to truth, dealt with in 43, 55, 913, 983, 2846, 2847.

  
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