Genesis 8:14

It was the twenty-seventh day of the second month.

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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

13So it was that in the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the waters had dried up. Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

15God said to Noah,

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Cross References

Genesis 7:13That was the day that Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark, and

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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