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Genesis 1:26

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26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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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 25:28

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28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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