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Secrets of Heaven #486

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486. Genesis 5:4. And after the human fathered Seth, his days were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

Days symbolize those times and states in general. Years symbolize those times and states in specific. Sons and daughters symbolize the truth and goodness they perceived.

  
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Genesis 5:4

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4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: