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Genesis 9:3

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3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

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Arcana Coelestia #1084

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1084. 'They took a garment' means that they placed a good interpretation on it. This is clear from what has been stated already. 'Taking a garment and covering someone's nakedness' can have no other meaning when 'being uncovered' and 'nakedness' mean errors and perversities.

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

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Genesis 10:1

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1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.