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Genesis 16:5

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5 Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."

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Arcana Coelestia #1943

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1943. That 'the angel of Jehovah said' means the interior man's thought is clear from what has been stated above at verses 7, 9-10.

  
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