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Genesis 33:18

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18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.

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Arcana Coelestia #4375

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4375. And he said, Let us journey, and go. That this signifies what is successive (namely, of the conjunction of good with truth), is evident from the signification of “to journey,” and “to go,” which plainly involve progression to further things; for progression and what is successive are contained in the internal sense of the things which now follow.

  
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