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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 #733

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733. Verse 6. And Noah was a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters was upon the earth. “Noah was a son of six hundred years” signifies his first state of temptation; “the flood of waters was upon the earth” signifies the beginning of temptation.

  
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