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And Josephsaid unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
6246. 'And I buried her on the road to Ephrath' means the casting away of that state. This is clear from the meaning of 'burying' as casting away, dealt with in 4564; and from the meaning of 'Ephrath' as the spiritual of the celestial in a former state, 6245.
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