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Genesis 1:3

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3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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Jeremiah 31:35

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35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

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Arcana Coelestia #3943

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3943. 'And brought them to Leah his mother' means application to the affection for external truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'bringing to' here as application, and from the representation of 'Leah' as the affection for external truth, dealt with in 3793, 3819.

  
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