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Genesis 47:26

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26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.

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Arcana Coelestia #6085

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6085. 'Let them dwell in the land of Goshen' means where the middle is. This is clear from the meaning of 'dwelling' as living, as immediately above in 6084; and from the meaning of 'the land of Goshen' as the middle or inmost part of the natural, dealt with in 5910, 6028, 6031, 6068.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.