9226. 'Seven days it shall be with its mother' means their first state with truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'seven days' as the first state of those who are being regenerated, 'days' being states, 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, 5672, 5962, 8426, 9213, and 'seven' being from start to finish, thus what is complete, 728, 6508; and from the meaning of 'mother' as the Church in respect of truth, thus also the Church's truth, dealt with in 289, 2691, 2717, 3703, 4257, 5581, 8897. From all this it follows that 'seven days it shall be with its mother' means the first state in its completeness or the whole of it from start to finish, during which a person is governed by truths. The implications of all this will be stated in the next paragraph.

533. Since nothing further is mentioned about Lamech apart from the fact that be beget sons and daughters, who are the conceptions and births of such a Church, there is no need to pause any longer over him. What these births, or sons and daughters, were, becomes clear from the Church, for the character of a Church determines that of its offspring. Both those Churches called Methuselah and Lamech breathed their last just before the flood.