Genesis 8:6

Forty days later Noah opened the window he'd made in the ark,

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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

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

7and sent a raven out. It flew back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up.

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Cross References

Daniel 6:10When Daniel found out that the decree had been signed he went home to his upstairs room where he would pray three times a day, with the windows open facing Jerusalem. There he kneeled down, praying and thanking his God as he always did.

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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