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Ezekiel 16:3

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3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

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Ezekiel 20:4

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4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

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Arcana Coelestia #6360

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6360. 'I will divide them in Jacob' means that they are to be banished from the natural man. This is clear from the meaning of 'dividing' or cutting off as separation and removal from truth and good, dealt with in 4424, thus a banishment; and from the representation of 'Jacob' as the natural or external man, dealt with in 3305, 3576, 4286, 4292, 4570, 6236.

  
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