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Genesis 11:3

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3 And they said one to another, come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

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Arcana Coelestia #1347

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1347. Verse 18. And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu. “And Peleg lived thirty years,” signifies the beginning of the fifth state; “Peleg” signifies the same here as before; “and begat Reu,” signifies a derivation therefrom. Reu was a nation so named from him as its father, whereby there is signified a worship still more external.

  
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