10465. And strewed it upon the faces of the waters. That this signifies commixture with truths, is evident from the signification of “waters,” as being truths (see the places cited in n. 10238); and as it is said that the powder into which the calf was ground was “strewed upon the waters,” therefore it is signified that falsity from infernal delight was mixed with the truths which are from heaven. The reason why by these “waters” are signified truths which are from heaven, is that these waters descended from Mount Sinai, and by “Mount Sinai” is signified heaven from which is Divine truth (n. 9420). That these waters were from thence is evident elsewhere in Moses:

I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and pounded it, grinding it well, until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mountain (Deuteronomy 9:21).