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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.

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Arcana Coelestia #7881

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7881. 'And that day shall be to you for a memorial' means the essential nature of that state in worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'day' as state, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, 5672, 5962, 6110; and from the meaning of 'memorial' as essential nature in worship, dealt with in 6888.

  
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