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Genesis 1:22

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22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

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Arcana Coelestia #475

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475. Verse 2. Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Man, in the day when they were created. By “male and female” is signified the marriage between faith and love; by “calling their name Man” is signified that they were the church, which, in an especial sense, is called “Man [homo].”

  
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Genesis 5:29

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29 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."