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Genesis 7:1

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1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

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Arcana Coelestia #713

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713. Verse 2. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens the man and his wife; and of the beast that is not clean by twos, the man and his wife. By “every clean beast” are signified affections of good; by “sevens” is signified that they are holy; by “man and his wife” that the truths were conjoined with goods. By the “beast not clean” are signified evil affections; by “two” that they are relatively profane; by “man and wife” falsities conjoined with evils.

  
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