23. Nothing is more common in the Word than for the word 'day' to be used to mean the particular time at which events take place, as in Isaiah,

The day of Jehovah is near. Behold, the day of Jehovah comes. I will make heaven tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, on the day of My fierce anger. Its time is close at hand, and its days will not be prolonged. Isaiah 13:6, 9, 13, 22.

And in the same prophet,

Her antiquity is in the days of antiquity. On that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. Isaiah 23:7, 15.

Since 'day' stands for the particular time it also stands for the state associated with that particular time, as in Jeremiah, Woe to us, for the day has declined, for the shadows of evening have lengthened! Jeremiah 6:4

And in the same prophet,

If you break My covenant that is for the day and My covenant that is for the night, so that there is neither daytime nor night at their appointed time. Jeremiah 33:20, 25.

Also,

Renew our days as of old. Lamentations 5:21.

7789. 'Saying, Go out, you, and all the people at your feet!' means pleading to let them depart from those guided by the truth from God, highest to lowest. This is clear from the meaning of 'going out' as departing; from the representation of Moses, to whom 'you' refers here, as God's truth; from the meaning of 'the people' as those guided by the truth from God (for the children of Israel, to whom 'the people' refers here, represent those who belong to the spiritual Church, that is, those who are guided by the truth of good and governed by the good of truth, at this point those guided by the truth from God since the expression 'the people at your feet' is used and 'Moses' represents God's truth); and from the meaning of 'at your feet' as those who occupy a lower position, thus who are subordinate, since 'feet', meaning natural things, therefore means lower ones. For the natural world lies below the spiritual world, and 'feet' means natural things, see 2162, 7761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952. All this explains why the words 'the people at your feet' are used. But they also mean highest to lowest, 'Moses' being the highest since he represents God's truth, 'the people at his feet' every single person who is guided by the truth from God.