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ואד יעלה מן־הארץ והשקה את־כל־פני־האדמה׃
8287. The floods stood as a heap. That this signifies that those who are continually attempting evil could not in the least infest, is evident from the signification of “standing as a heap,” when said of falsities from evil, as being to continually attempt evil, for when floods stand as a heap, they are a menace, and are in the effort to flow in, but are withheld by a stronger force; and from the signification of “the floods,” as being falsities from evil, in like manner as “waters” (n. 7307, 8137, 8138); but they are called “floods” on account of their effort to flow in, that is, to infest.
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Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.