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Genesis 25:30

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30 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

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Arcana Coelestia #3275

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3275. 'A hundred and thirty-seven years' means the things constituting that state. This becomes clear from what has been stated above in 3252 about Abraham's age.

  
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