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Genesis 7:21

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21 and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

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Arcana Coelestia #744

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744. That affections of good are signified by “the clean beast” has been stated and explained before, at the second verse (Genesis 7:2) of this chapter, and therefore need not be dwelt upon; as also that cupidities, that is, evil affections, are signified by “the beast not clean.”

  
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