There are seventy veins in the liver, corresponding to ‘the seventy appointed-ones’ – and the liver and the extra lobe of the liver, are 72. Its extra lobe is the snake, ‘the wife of whoring’, because its [Var. her] leftovers are taken by the spleen which is darkness, and upon it is stated: (Gen. 1:5)... and the darkness He called ‘night’ (laiylah)..., for her dominion is in exile – which is night.
And in exile, the hour stands for it, for she is Lylyt – the mother of the mixed multitude, and she is the ‘laughter of the fool’, [Var. the spleen] and because of her it is stated: (Job 7:9) As the cloud has finished and gone, so one who has descended to she-ol will not rise. And this is: ‘the more righteous than he it swallows’.