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Genesis 27:36

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36 And he saith, `Is it because [one] called his name Jacob that he doth take me by the heel these two times? my birthright he hath taken; and lo, now, he hath taken my blessing;' he saith also, `Hast thou not kept back a blessing for me?'

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Arcana Coelestia #3545

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3545. 'Which she had made' means which came from the Divine. This is clear from the representation of 'Rebekah' as the Divine Truth of the Lord's Divine Rational. And since it is Rebekah who is said 'to have made it', good that came from the Divine is meant.

  
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