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Бытие 16:3

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3 И взяла Сара, жена Аврамова, служанку свою, Египтянку Агарь, по истечении десяти лет пребывания Аврамова в земле Ханаанской, и дала ее Авраму, мужу своему, в жену.

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Arcana Coelestia #1962

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1962. Verse 16. And Abram was a son of eighty years and six years, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. “Abram was a son of eighty years and six years,” signifies the Lord’s state in respect to the celestial good acquired by combats of temptations; “when Hagar bare Ishmael,” signifies when the life of the affection of memory-knowledges brought forth the rational.

  
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Genesis 16:1

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1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.