Genesis 8:6

After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark,

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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 go down until, on the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains could be seen.

7and sent out a raven; and it kept going to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

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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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