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Genesis 5:16

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16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

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Arcana Coelestia #526

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526. Verse 28 And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-two years; and he beget a son.

'Lamech' here means a ninth Church in which the perception of truth and good was so general and vague as to be almost none at all, and so it was a vastated Church. 'A son means the rise of a new Church.

  
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