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Genesis 7:12

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12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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Arcana Coelestia #812

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812. Verse 24. And the waters were strengthened upon the earth a hundred and fifty days. This signifies the last limit of the Most Ancient Church; “a hundred and fifty” is the last limit, and the first.

  
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