Genesis 8:5

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

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4And the ark rested on the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Kardu.

6And it was at the end of forty days, and Noach opened the windows of the ark which he had made.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:11In the six-hundredth year of the life of Noach, in the second month, in the seven-teenth day of the month, in that day were all the springs of the great abyss upbroken, and the windows of heaven opened,

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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