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Genesis 9:5

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5 And indeed your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require: at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of Man, at the hand of each [the blood] of his brother, will I require the life of Man.

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Arcana Coelestia #1027

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1027. 'With birds' means specifically the things of his understanding. This is clear from what has been stated and shown frequently already about birds, as in 40, 776

  
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