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Genesis 44:22

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22 And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

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Arcana Coelestia #5753

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5753. 'And they said to him' means a discernment. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical narratives of the Word as perception.

  
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