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Bereshit 8:4

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4 ותנח התבה בחדש השביעי בשבעה־עשר יום לחדש על הרי אררט׃

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Arcana Coelestia #877

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877. 'The waters were over the face 1 of the earth' means that falsities were still there to overflowing. This is clear from the meaning of 'the waters of the flood' as falsities, as shown adequately already, and so from the very words themselves.

Footnotes:

1. literally, the faces

  
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