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Genesis 7:4

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4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

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Arcana Coelestia #750

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750. 'As God had commanded' means that it was so accomplished. This has been shown already at verse 22 of the previous chapter and also at verse 5 of this.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.