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Genesis 7:11

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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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Arcana Coelestia #748

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748. That their “going into the ark” signifies that they were protected, was stated before at the seventh verse (Genesis 7:7), where it is said concerning Noah and his sons and their wives.

  
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