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Genesis 24:3

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3 kad prisaikdinčiau tave Viešpaties, žemės ir dangaus Dievo vardu, kad neimsi žmonos mano sūnui iš kanaaniečių dukterų, tarp kurių gyvenu,

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Arcana Coelestia #3133

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3133. 'And when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister' means the inclination of it. This is clear from the affection which these words hold within them and also which flows from the things that come before, for these bear witness to the inclination on the part of the affection for truth, represented here by 'Rebekah his sister'.

  
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Zephaniah 3:6

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6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.