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And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:
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And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:
1037. That 'and God said' means that it was so has been stated and shown already; for God's or Jehovah's saying, or His having said, means that it was so. Because the most ancient people used to weave together as a historical tale things to do with the Church, they would say, when wishing to assert that something was so, 'God said' or 'Jehovah said'. With them this was a commonplace expression for asserting and confirming something.