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Genesis 50:5

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5 My father caused me to swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there dost thou bury me; and now, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and return;'

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Arcana Coelestia #6594

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6594. 'A hundred and ten years old' means the state at that time. This is clear from the meaning of 'a hundred and ten years' as the state and essential nature of the life of factual knowledge from the internal, dealt with in 6582 - 'years' being states, see 487, 488, 497.

  
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