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Genesis 12:10

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10 And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goeth down towards Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land;

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Arcana Coelestia #1427

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1427. 'And Abram went, as Jehovah had told him' means an advance towards Divine things. This is clear from what has just been stated.

  
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