Genesis 8:4

And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

In Context

3And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

5And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:17And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from earth.

Isaiah 37:38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:2-4

The Earth Becomes Dry. ( b. c. 2349.) 1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; 2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. Here is, I. An act of God's grace: God remembered Noah and every… Read the whole commentary →

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