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Genesis 2:10

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10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

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Void

  

A 'void', or 'Vacuity' denotes a person's state before regeneration. From Arcana Coelestia 7: "The first state is the state which precedes, both the state existing from earliest childhood onwards and that existing immediately before regeneration; and it is called a void, emptiness, and thick darkness.

In Genesis 1:2, this signifies lacking good, as with man's state before regeneration. (Arcana Coelestia 17)

In Psalm 89:39, this signifies that the Jewish nation had destroyed its conjunction with the Lord and the church. (The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms 339)

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Genesis 1:31

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31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.