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Genesis 34:11

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11 And Shechem said to her father, and to her brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say to me, I will give.

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Arcana Coelestia #4512

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4512. 'And everything that was in the house' means everything of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the house' as the Church as regards good, dealt with in 1795, 3720, and so everything of the Church. It is because 'house' has this meaning that it is mentioned last.

  
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