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Genesis 4:24

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Arcana Coelestia #413

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413. That 'Adah' means the mother of the celestial things of faith is clear from the fact that Jabal, her firstborn, is called 'the father of the tent-dweller and of cattle', which are celestial because they mean the holy things of love, and goods deriving from these.

  
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