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Bereshit 18:31

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31 וַיֹּאמֶר הִנֵּה־נָא הֹואַלְתִּי לְדַבֵּר אֶל־אֲדֹנָי אוּלַי יִמָּצְאוּן שָׁם עֶשְׂרִים וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא אַשְׁחִית בַּעֲבוּר הָעֶשְׂרִים׃

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Arcana Coelestia #2281

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2281. That 'He said, I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty' means that they will be saved is clear from the train of thought in the internal sense, thus without explanation.

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

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Numbers 1:42

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42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;