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Ezequiel 4:13

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13 E disse o Senhor: Assim comerão os filhos de Israel o seu pão imundo, entre as nações, para onde eu os lançarei.

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Shekel

  

'A shekel' signifies the price or estimation of good and truth, and 'half a shekel' signifies the determination of the quantity thereof.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 3104)

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Isaiah 20:4-5

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4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

5 They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.