Genesis 8:14

After another 2 months, the earth was dry.

Plain English Version

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 was 601 years old at that time. The water was still going down, and on the 1st day of the new year, Noah took off some of the roof from the big boat and looked around. He could see that the ground was getting dry.

15Then God said to Noah,

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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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