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Genesis 33:8

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8 And he saith, `What to thee [is] all this camp which I have met?' and he saith, `To find grace in the eyes of my lord.'

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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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Deuteronomy 16:13

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13 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress: