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1 Mosebok 24:63

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63 Och mot aftonen hade Isak gått ut på fältet i sorgsna tankar. När han då lyfte upp sina ögon, fick han se kameler komma.

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Arcana Coelestia #3054

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3054. 'He made the camels kneel down' means a holy ordering of general facts. This is clear from the meaning of 'making them kneel down' as ordering themselves into a holy array, and from the meaning of 'the camels' as general facts, dealt with just above in 3048.

  
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Genesis 24:5

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5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"