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Genesis 18:31

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31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord: Peradventure there will be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

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Arcana Coelestia #6131

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6131. 'And they came to him in the second year' means the beginning of the next state. This is clear from what comes before this, thus without any further explanation.

  
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