6969. Verses 8-9. And it shall be, if they do not believe thee, and hear not the voice of the former sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. And it shall be, if they do not believe also these two signs, and do not hear thy voice, that thou shalt take of the waters of the river, and pour out on the dry [land], and the waters which thou hast taken out of the river, they shall become blood in the dry [land]. “And it shall be, if they do not believe thee,” signifies if they have not faith; “and hear not the voice of the former sign,” signifies if they do not obey what is announced from the Word, that instead of spiritual and rational men they would become not spiritual and not rational; “that they will believe the voice of the latter sign,” signifies that they would have faith in what had been foretold from the Word, namely, that they would become profaners of truth; “and it shall be, if they do not believe also these two signs,” signifies if they should have no faith whatever that such things would come to pass; “and do not hear thy voice,” signifies if they do not yield any obedience; “that thou shalt take of the waters of the river,” signifies false memory-knowledges; “and pour out on the dry [land],” signifies insertion into the natural; “and the waters which thou hast taken out of the river,” signifies inversion of the state; “they shall become blood in the dry [land],” signifies the falsification of all truth, and the consequent privation of it in the natural.