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1 Mosebok 16:2

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2 Og Sarai sa til Abram: Se, Herren har nektet mig barn; gå derfor inn til min trælkvinne! Kanskje jeg kunde få et barn ved henne. Og Abram lød Sarais råd.

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Arcana Coelestia #1908

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1908. Verse 4. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived; and she saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was despised in her eyes. “He went in unto Hagar,” signifies the conjunction of the internal man with the life which is of the affection of memory-knowledges; “and she conceived” signifies the first life of the rational; “and she saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was despised in her eyes,” signifies that this rational at its conception lightly esteemed the truth itself that was adjoined to good.

  
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