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Genesis 47:19

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19 Why shall we die before thy eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

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Arcana Coelestia #6076

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6076. And they said unto Pharaoh. That this signifies continuance of perception, is evident from the signification of “saying,” as being perception (see n. 6063); and from the representation of Pharaoh, as being the natural in general (as above). Continuance of perception by the natural is signified, because the expression “they said unto Pharaoh” was also used just above ( n. 6074), and now here again.

  
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