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Genesis 1:15

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15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

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Arcana Coelestia #1349

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1349. Verse 20. And Reu lived thirty-two years, and he begot Serug. 'Reu lived thirty-two years' means the beginning of the sixth state, 'Reu' having the same meaning here as previously. 'And he begot Serug' means a derivative from it, 'Serug' being a nation so named from him as its forefather which means worship confined to externals

  
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Genesis 11:16

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16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: