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1 Mosebok 30:38

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38 Sedan lade han käpparna, som han hade skalat, i rännorna eller vattenhoarna dit hjordarna kommo för att dricka, så att djuren hade dem framför sig; och de hade just sin parningstid, när de nu kommo för att dricka.

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Arcana Coelestia #4003

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4003. Verses 34-36. And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. And he removed that day the he-goats that were party-colored and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, everyone that had white in it, and all the black among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. And he set a way of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks. “And Laban said, Behold I would it might be according to thy word,” signifies consent; “and he removed that day the he-goats that were party-colored and spotted,” signifies that those truths of good were separated that were scattered over and mingled with the evils and falsities that were proper to the good signified by “Laban;” “and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted,” signifies their goods in which evils and falsities were mingled; “everyone that had white in it,” signifies truth; “and all the black among the lambs,” signifies the own of innocence; “and gave them into the hand of his sons,” signifies that they were given to truths; “and he set a way of three days between himself and Jacob,” signifies that their state was altogether separated; “and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks,” signifies that from what was left he took those goods and truths that could be conjoined.

  
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