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Genesis 27:40

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40 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

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Arcana Coelestia #3535

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3535. 'He went and took them, and brought them to his mother' means a state of the obedience of natural truth. This becomes clear from what has been stated just above in 3533, and so is clear without any further explanation.

  
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