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24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
The creation of heaven and earth in the first chapter of Genesis represents the new creation of the celestial church called 'Man'.
(References: Arcana Coelestia 9336, Genesis 1)
8 God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.