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for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'
Genesis 7:4
Arcana Coelestia # 771
771. As every expression in the Word is from the Lord, and therefore has what is Divine within it, it is evident that there is no word, nor even an iota, that does not signify and involve something. And so it is here, when it is said “three wives” and the wives “of his sons” and also “with them.” But what the particulars involve it would take too long to explain. It is sufficient to give only a general idea of their most general import.
