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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 #8894

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8894. 'Therefore Jehovah blessed the seventh day' means that at that time the heavenly marriage from the Lord exists. This is clear from the meaning of 'blessing' as undergoing rearrangement into heavenly order and being endowed with the good of love, dealt with in 3017, 3406, 4981, 8674; and from the meaning of 'the seventh day' as the state of celestial love, dealt with in 84-87, thus the heavenly marriage, since the heavenly marriage is goodness and truth joined together, which is heaven in a person. For the meaning of 'the sabbath' as this marriage, see 8495, 8510.

  
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Exodus 20:11

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11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.