6976. And pour out on the dry [land]. That this signifies insertion into the natural, is evident from the signification of “pouring out,” as being insertion; and from the signification of “the dry [land],” as being the natural. A dry place is called “dry,” and the land is also so called, and by the “land of Egypt” is signified the natural mind, which is in falsity, thus the natural (see n. 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5301), and still more by the “dry [land].”