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Bereshit 19:20

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20 הנה־נא העיר הזאת קרבה לנוס שמה והיא מצער אמלטה נא שמה הלא מצער הוא ותחי נפשי׃

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Arcana Coelestia #2314

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2314. Besides this, 'the inhabitants of Sodom' describes, in the internal sense, the state of those people inside the same Church who are averse to the good of charity, and describes how evil and falsity among them increases with the passage of time until nothing but evil and falsity are theirs.

  
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Genesis 19:36-38

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36 Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.

37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.