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Genesis 7:11

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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

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Arcana Coelestia #797

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797. From all these considerations it is now clear what is meant by 'the waters with which the mountains were covered', namely that persuasions of falsity did away with all good that stemmed from charity.

  
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