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21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
'To open,' as in Revelation 9, signifies communication and conjunction.
(References: Apocalypse Explained 537)