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Genesis 1:5

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5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first Day.

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Arcana Coelestia #26

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26. Verse 8 And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

What 'evening', 'morning', and 'day' mean, has been shown already at verse 5.

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

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Psalms 132:4-7

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4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;

5 until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob."

6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar:

7 "We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.