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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.
'To open,' as in Revelation 9, signifies communication and conjunction.
(References: Apocalypse Explained 537)
22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.