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Genesis 29:9

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9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

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Arcana Coelestia #3792

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3792. While he was yet speaking with them. That this signifies thought on that occasion, is evident from the signification in the historicals of the Word of “to speak,” as being to think (see n. 2271, 2287, 2619). That it signified thought on that occasion is manifest, because at the very time when he was speaking with them, or what is the same thing, “while he was yet speaking with them,” Rachel came.

  
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