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Genesis 33:5

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5 and he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the women and the children, and saith, `What [are] these to thee?' And he saith, `The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant.'

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Arcana Coelestia #4398

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4398. 'Where he had stretched his tent' means holiness. This is clear from the meaning of 'a tent' as holiness, dealt with in 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3210.

  
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