Genesis 8:4

the ark grounded on the mountains of Ararat. This happened on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

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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

3The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after the flood began

5The waters continued to drop so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of mountains could be seen.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:17The flood increased for forty days, lifting the ark so that it floated up from the earth.

Isaiah 37:38While he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword and then ran away to the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon succeeded him as king.

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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