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Genesis 13:6

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6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

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Arcana Coelestia #1543

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1543. And Abram went up out of Egypt. That this signifies from memory-knowledges, which left the Lord, is evident from the signification of “Abram,” as representing the Lord; and also from the signification of “Egypt,” which is memory-knowledge; and also from the signification of “going up,” for this expression is used of emerging from the lower things, which are the memory-knowledges, to the higher, which are the celestial things; and therefore, in the Word, “to go up from Egypt into the land of Canaan”—an expression which often occurs—involves the like things.

  
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