Genesis 8:6

Then, 40 days later, Noah opened a window in the big boat. He wanted to find out if the water went down, and if a bird could find some dry ground.

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In The King James Version

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

In Context

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.

7So he let a crow go out of the window. The crow didn’t come back to the big boat. It just kept on flying around until the flood waters dried up.

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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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