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Genesis 9:5

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5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

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Arcana Coelestia #1087

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1087. They covered their father's nakedness' means that in this way they excused those things. This is equally clear from the train of thought, and also from the meaning of 'nakedness' as perversities.

  
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