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Genesis 2:3

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3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

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Fruitful

  

To be fruitful relates to goodnesses, and to be multiplied, truths.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 1014, 1018)

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Arcana Coelestia #864

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864. Verse 7 And he sent out a raven, and it went out going back and forth until the waters dried up from over the earth.

'He sent out a raven, and it went out going back and forth' means that falsities were still giving trouble; 'a raven' means falsities, 'going back and forth' means that such was their state. 'Until the waters dried up from over the earth' means the apparent dispersal of falsities.

  
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