The Bible

Genesis 1:9

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

From Swedenborg's Works

Arcana Coelestia #603

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603. He was to be preserved when the rest would perish in a deluge of evil and falsity, verse 17.

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The Bible

Genesis 6:4

⁴ There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.