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Genesis 1:21

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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.

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Arcana Coelestia #889

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889. That 'he waited yet another seven days' means the beginning of the third state, 'seven' meaning that which is holy, is clear from what has already been stated immediately above about the second state, where similar words occur.

  
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Genesis 8:5

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5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.