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Genesis 1:20

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20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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Arcana Coelestia #299

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299. There are two arcana here: the first that 'Jehovah God' means the Lord and at the same time heaven, the second that if they had been instructed in mysteries of faith they would have perished forever.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Numbers 10:11-12

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11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.