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耶和华对挪亚说：你和你的全家都要进入方舟；因为在这世代中，我见你在我面前是义人。
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凡洁净的畜类，你要带七公七母；不洁净的畜类，你要带一公一母；
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因为再过七天，我要降雨在地上四十昼夜，把我所造的各种活物都从地上除灭。
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挪亚就同他的妻和儿子儿妇都进入方舟，躲避洪水。
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都是一对一对的，有公有母，到挪亚那里进入方舟，正如神所吩咐挪亚的。
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当挪亚六百岁，二月十七日那一天，大渊的泉源都裂开了，天上的窗户也敞开了
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正当那日，挪亚和他三个儿子闪、含、雅弗，并挪亚的妻子和三个儿妇，都进入方舟。
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他们和百兽，各从其类，一切牲畜，各从其类，爬在地上的昆虫，各从其类，一切禽鸟，各从其类，都进入方舟。
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凡有血肉、有气息的活物，都一对一对地到挪亚那里，进入方舟。
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凡有血肉进入方舟的，都是有公有母，正如神所吩咐挪亚的。耶和华就把他关在方舟里头。
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凡在地上有血肉的动物，就是飞鸟、牲畜、走兽，和爬在地上的昆虫，以及所有的人，都死了。
806. 'Everything that was on the dry land' means the people in whom nothing of that kind of life existed any more, and 'they died' means that they breathed their last. This follows now from what has been said above. And because all the life that belongs to love and faith had been annihilated, 'the dry land' is referred to here. The dry land is where there is no water, that is, where nothing spiritual, let alone celestial, exists any more. Persuasion of falsity annihilates and so to speak suffocates everything spiritual and celestial, as anyone may recognize from much experience if he pays the matter any attention. Once people have adopted opinions, though utterly false, they cling to them so tenaciously that they will not even listen to anything to the contrary. That being so, they never allow themselves to be taught, even if the truth is placed before their very eyes. Still more is this the case when they reverence a false opinion because of some idea that is sacred. Such people spurn all truth, and what they do accept they pervert, and in so doing submerge in delusions. It is they who are meant here by 'the dry land' which has no water or grass on it, as in Ezekiel,
I will make the rivers dry land, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men, and I will make the land desolate and the fullness of it. Ezekiel 30:12.
'Making the rivers dry land' stands for what is spiritual being no more. And in Jeremiah,
Your land has become dry land. Jeremiah 44:22.
'Dry land' stands for land made desolate and laid waste so that there is no longer any good or truth at all.
