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Genesis 1:11

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11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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Arcana Coelestia #3282

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3282. 'When he took Rebekah' means the joining of Divine Truth [to the Divine Rational]. This is clear from the representation of 'Rebekah' as Divine Truth allied to Divine Good in the Rational, the origin of which in the natural man was dealt with in the previous chapter.

  
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Genesis 25:32

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32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?