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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 #1349

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1349. Verse 20. And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug. “And Reu lived two and thirty years,” signifies the beginning of the sixth state; “Reu” signifies the same here as before; “and begat Serug,” signifies a derivation therefrom. Serug was a nation so named from him as its father, by which is signified worship in externals.

  
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