Genesis 8:14

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

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In The King James Version

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

In Context

13By now Noah was 601, and by the first day of the first month, the floodwaters on the earth were gone. Noah pulled back the ark's covering and saw that the ground was drying out.

15Then God told Noah,

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Cross References

Genesis 7:13That was the actual day when Noah, his wife, and their sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth together with their three wives went into the ark.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:14-15

13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. Here is, 1. The ground dry ( v. 13 ), that is, all the water carried off it, which, upon the first day of the first month (a joyful new-year's-day it was), Noah was himself… Read the whole commentary →

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