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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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Arcana Coelestia #1225

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1225. That 'Shem' means the internal Church has been stated and shown in verse 18 onwards of the previous chapter.

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

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Genesis 9:23

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23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.