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55) “For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights,” forty days with which to strike the wicked of the world, as it is written, “He will strike him forty,” not more, opposite the four directions of the world, HB TM, ten to each, which are forty, since man was created from the four directions of the world. It is written about it, “And I will blot out the entire universe.” It requires forty smites to blot out the world.
56) “And the earth became corrupt before God.” If people sin, with what does the earth sin? It is written, “for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth,” as it is written, “And the land has become defiled, and I have brought its punishment upon it.” However, it is the people who sin; in what does the earth sin? Indeed, the heart of the earth is people. They corrupt the earth and it becomes corrupted.
57) All the sins of man and all of his corruption depend on repentance. The sin of one who spills semen on the earth, who corrupts his way and ejaculates on the earth, is that he corrupts himself and corrupts the earth. It is written about him, “The stain of your iniquity is before Me.” It is also written, “For You are not a God who desires wickedness; evil shall not dwell with You,” meaning that one who ejaculates on the earth, and who is called “bad,” will no longer dwell with the Creator. That is, He will not accept his repentance, except on a great repentance. It is also written, “And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was bad in the eyes of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.”
58) Why did the Creator sentence the world, the generation of the flood, to water, and not to fire or to anything else? It was because they corrupted their ways with the upper water and lower water not connecting male and female as it should be. Anyone who corrupts his way corrupts MAD and MAN. That is, he blemishes the upper MAD and MAN and causes them to not connect. This is why they were sentenced to water, with which they had sinned.
59) But the water were boiling and stripped the skin off them, as they had corrupted their ways in boiling water. They were avenged with Din for a Din, an eye for an eye, as it is written, “all the fountains of the great deep broke up,” which is lower water. And it is written, “And the windows of the heaven opened” is the upper water. Thus, they were struck by upper water and lower water.
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