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Secrets of Heaven #1549

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1549. Genesis 13:2. And Abram was very heavy with livestock, silver, and gold.

Abram was very heavy with livestock symbolizes the good impulses with which the Lord then grew rich. Silver symbolizes true ideas. And gold symbolizes the good effects that result from truth.

  
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Genesis 13:2

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2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.