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Бытие 38:3

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3 Она зачала, и родила сына; и онъ нарекъ ему имя: Иръ.

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Левит 22:13

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13 Когда же дочь священника будетъ вдова, или разведенная, и дјтей нјтъ у ней, и возвратится въ домъ отца своего, какъ была въ юности своей: тогда она можетъ јсть хлјбъ отца своего; а чужой никто не долженъ јсть его.

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Arcana Coelestia #4869

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4869. 'For he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law' means that it did not see it as the truth of the representative Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'a daughter-in-law' as the truth of the Church linked to its good, dealt with in 4843. The reason the truth of the representative Church is meant is that Tamar, to whom 'his daughter-in-law' refers here, represents the Church that was representative of spiritual and celestial things, 4829, 4831. Regarding these matters, see what has been shown above in 4865, 4866, 4868.

  
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