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Genesis 30:33

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33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

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Arcana Coelestia #4034

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4034. Verse 43 And the man became very very prosperous, 1 and he had many flocks, and servant-girls and slaves, and camels and asses.

'The man became very very prosperous' means multiplication. 'And he had many flocks' means resulting interior goods and truths. 'And servant-girls and slaves' means intermediate goods and truths. 'And camels and asses' means the rather external and the fully external truths of good.

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1. literally, spread himself exceedingly exceedingly

  
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