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Genesis 7:3

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3 Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all 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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