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Genesis 30:32

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32 I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

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Arcana Coelestia #3967

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3967. And opened her womb. That this signifies the capacity to receive and acknowledge, is evident from the signification of “opening the womb,” as being to give capacity to conceive and bring forth; thus in the internal sense the capacity to receive and acknowledge, namely, the goods of truth and the truths of good. That “conceiving and bringing forth” denote reception and acknowledgment, has been repeatedly shown above.

  
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