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Genesis 1:25

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25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #461

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461. The Most Ancient Church itself, which was celestial, is what is named Man and the Likeness of God, verse 1.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

The Bible

 

Genesis 5:1-2

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1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.