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At mangyayari, na pagka sila'y magsisipasok sa mga pintuang-daan ng lalong loob na looban, susuutan sila ng mga kayong linong kasuutan; at walang lanang dadaiti sa kanila, samantalang sila'y nagsisipangasiwa sa mga pintuang-daan ng lalong loob na looban, at sa loob.
9660. 'Sixteen bases' means total support. This is clear from the meaning of 'sixteen' as that which is total, 'sixteen' being similar in meaning to 'eight' since multiple numbers have a similar meaning to the simple ones of which they are the products, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973, and 'eight' means what is complete and what is so in every respect, as shown immediately above in 9659, thus that which is total; and from the meaning of 'bases' as support, dealt with in 9643.
3252. 'A hundred and seventy-five years' means the things constituting that state. This becomes clear from the fact that every number used in the Word means some real thing, see 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, and so with this particular number which consequently means the things which constitute the state that is the subject here. As long as the mind confines itself to the historical sense it seems as though numbers, such as these 1 which give Abraham's age, do not hold any interior meaning within them. The fact that they do nevertheless hold such meaning within them is evident from all that has been shown already concerning numbers, and becomes clear from the consideration that no number as to its numerical value contains anything holy, and yet the smallest detail of all in the Word is holy.
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1. i.e. the numbers 100, 70, and 5
