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Genesis 30:21

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21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

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Arcana Coelestia #3907

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3907. And she said unto Jacob, Give me sons. That this signifies a desire to have interior truths from the good of natural truth, is evident from the representation of Jacob, as being the good of natural truth (see n. 3905); and from the signification of “sons,” as being truths (n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623); here interior truths because from Rachel, by whom is represented interior truth (n. 3758, 3782, 3793, 3819).

  
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