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Genesis 7:2

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2 of all the clean beasts thou dost take to thee seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean two, a male and its female;

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Arcana Coelestia #804

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804. The phrase 'every man' is added, which means that those things were present in that man. This is a concluding general statement which embraces what has gone before. Such concluding statements are frequently included.

  
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