Genesis 8:4

So 5 months after the start of the flood, the big boat got stuck in the mountains called the Ararat mountains.

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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

3The flood water went down slowly, and after 5 months it was a lot lower.

5The flood water kept going down for the next 2½ months, and then they saw the tops of the mountains, sticking up out of the water.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:17The flood water kept on getting higher and higher for all those 40 days, and the big boat started to float on the water.

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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