Genesis 8:14

Truly the ground was getting dry, the ground was hard.

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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

13Noah waited one month. After that he looked around.

15Then God said to Noah, “You (pl) get down and make the animals and birds get down. They've got to scatter. They have to become many everywhere.”

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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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