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Genesis 6:10

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10 At nagkaanak si Noe ng tatlong lalake: si Sem, si Cham, at si Japhet.

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Arcana Coelestia #5956

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5956. 'And five changes of garments' means much truth from the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'five' as much, dealt with in 5708; and from the meaning of 'changes of garments' as truths brought in touch with good. The reason this truth is from the natural is that 'garments' are spoken of in reference to the natural. The reason why truth from the natural was the intermediary, which was represented by 'Benjamin', is that to be an intermediary it must derive from the internal and from the external, 5822. Its derivation from the internal is described by the imparting to the intermediary of a complete amount of truth from good, which is meant by 'three hundred pieces of silver', dealt with immediately above in 5955. The derivation of the intermediary from the external is described by much truth received from the natural, meant by 'five changes of garments'.

  
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Judges 7:6-8

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6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.

7 Yahweh said to Gideon, "By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place."

8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.