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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.

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.