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Genesis 1:22

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22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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Call

  
Two whitetail deer, photo by Joy Feerrar

To call someone or summon someone in the Bible represents a desire for conjunction between higher and lower states of life.

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Ezekiel 40:5

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5 Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.