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Genesis 25:16

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16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

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Arcana Coelestia #3282

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3282. When he took Rebekah. That this signifies the conjunction of Divine truth, is evident from the representation of Rebekah, as being Divine truth adjoined to Divine good in the rational, the birth of which from the natural man was treated of in the preceding chapter.

  
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