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Secrets of Heaven #492

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492. Genesis 5:5. And all the days that the human lived were nine hundred thirty years, and he died.

Days and years here as before [§§482, 487, 488] symbolize those times and states. He died means that such perception ceased to exist.

  
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Numbers 11:16

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16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.