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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 that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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Arcana Coelestia #758

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758. Verse 12. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. This signifies that the temptation continued. “Rain” is temptation; “forty days and forty nights” denotes its duration.

  
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