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Genesis 39:20

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20 Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

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Arcana Coelestia #1704

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1704. 'And he was dwelling among the oak-groves of Mamre the Amorite' means the state of perception coming from the Rational Man. This is clear from the meaning of 'an oak-grove' and of 'the oak-groves of Mamre the Amorite', dealt with already in 1442, 1443, 1616.

  
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Jeremiah 34:9

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9 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.