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But he said again: Rightly is his namecalledJacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: my first birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?
3523. 'Before his death' means awakening in the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'death' as awakening, also dealt with above in 3498, 3505 - an awakening, it is evident, in the natural.
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