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Genesis 7:17

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17 And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.

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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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