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Genesis 33:13

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13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

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Arcana Coelestia #4389

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4389. And Jacob journeyed to Succoth. That this signifies the state of the life of good from truth at that time, is evident from the representation of Jacob, as being the good of truth (of which above); here the good from truth then from the things adjoined to it from the good which is “Esau,” which things have been treated of; from the signification of “journeying,” as being the order and practices of life (see n. 1293), thus the state of the life; and from the signification of “Succoth,” as being the quality of this state (concerning which in what follows, n. 4391, 4392).

  
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