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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 #486

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486. Verse 4 And the days of Man after he beget Seth were eight hundred years; and he beget sons and daughters.

'Days' means periods of time and states in general. 'Years' means periods of time and states in particular. 'Sons and daughters' means the truths and goods that they perceived.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #8059

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8059. 'And on the seventh day there shall be a feast to Jehovah' means holy worship of the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'the seventh day' as a holy state, state being meant by 'day', see 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, 5672, 5962, and what is holy by 'seven', 395, 433, 716, 881, 5265, 5268; and from the meaning of 'a feast to Jehovah' as worship of the Lord, worship with gladness of mind being meant by 'a feast', see 7093, and the Lord by 'Jehovah', 8046.

  
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