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Genesis 1:2

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2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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Genesis 9:6

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6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

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Nile, or river of Egypt

  

'The Nile' or 'river of Egypt' represents the sensory things subject to the intellectual mind and the ideas derived there. This is because they are the extreme parts of the spiritual things in the Lord's kingdom.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 5196)