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Genesis 23:20

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20 Tawagost d əɣəɣi wa tat-ihan əqqalan təla n Ibrahim, təggaz-t-id əs Kəl Xet, a-tat-agu edagg ən zəkwan ən nəṃṃəttan-net.

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Arcana Coelestia #2961

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2961. 'So bury your dead' means emergence from night and consequent rising up again. This is clear from the meaning of 'one who is dead' as night as regards the truths of faith, and of 'being buried' as rising up again, dealt with several times already, see 2917, 2923, 2925, 2931, 2948, 2955. The reason why these words occur so many times in this chapter is that the subject is the emergence from night as regards truths of faith, and the rising up again, that is, the reformation and regeneration of the spiritual Church.

  
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Genesis 23:16

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16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.