Genesis 8:6

Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

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In The King James Version

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

In Context

5And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

7Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

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Cross References

Daniel 6:10\6:9\For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:5-6

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Here we have the effects and evidences of the ebbing of the waters. 1. The ark rested. This was some satisfaction to Noah, to feel the house he was in upon firm ground, and no longer movable. It rested upon a mountain, whither it was directed, not by Noah's… Read the whole commentary →

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