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Genesis 31:5

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5 And said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not towards me as before: but the God of my father hath been with me.

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Arcana Coelestia #4098

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4098. 'Are we not considered strangers by him, for he has sold us?' means that it had alienated them so that they did not belong to it any longer. This is clear from the meaning of 'being considered strangers' as being alienated, and from the meaning of 'selling' as so alienating them that they did not belong to it any longer.

  
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