Genesis 8:4

And the ark rested on the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Kardu.

Targum Onkelos

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

3And the waters diminished from the end of a hundred and fifty days.

5And the waters went and diminished until the tenth month: in the tenth, on the first of the mouth, the heads of the mountains appeared.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:17And there was a deluge forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and took up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

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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