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And Godcreated great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every wingedfowl after his kind: and Godsaw that it was good.
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And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
2817. 'And took the knife' means as regards truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the knife' as the truth of faith, dealt with above in 2799; and that the Lord's temptation was temptation as regards Divine truth, see 2813, 2814.
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