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1 Mosebok 29:12

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12 Och Jakob omtalade för Rakel att han var hennes faders frände, och att han var Rebeckas son; och hon skyndade åstad och omtalade det för sin fader.

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Arcana Coelestia #3772

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3772. And watered the flock. That this signifies that the doctrine was thence derived, is evident from the signification of “watering,” or of “giving to drink,” as being to instruct (see n. 3069, 3768); and from the signification of a “flock,” as being those who are in the goods and truths of faith (n. 343, 3767). Thus “to water the flock” is to instruct out of the Word, consequently it is doctrine.

  
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