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Genesis 1:26

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26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Genesis 9:1

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1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

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Arcana Coelestia #3710

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3710. 'And in your seed' means and to truth, that is to say, those truths taught by doctrine will be joined to it. This is clear from the meaning of 'seed' as truth, dealt with in 29, 1025, 1447, 1610, 2848, 3373.

  
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