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Ezekiel 16:17

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17 And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee, And dost make to thee images of a male, And dost go a-whoring with them,

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In Genesis 38:14, this signifies truth obscured that pretends to be from good. (Arcana Coelestia 4859) The "high mountains being covered" (Genesis 7:19) signifies that all the good things of charity were extinguished.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 795)

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Genesis 38:14

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14 She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.