Genesis 8:4

◄on the 17th day of the seventh month of that year/late in March►, the boat came to rest on one of the mountains in the Ararat region.

Translation for Translators

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 water on the earth gradually receded. 150 days after the flood began,

5The water continued to recede until, on the first day of the tenth month of that year, the tops of other mountains became visible.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:17It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground.

Isaiah 37:38One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his two sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. Then they escaped and went to the Ararat region northwest of Nineveh. And another of Sennacherib’s sons, Esarhaddon, became the King of Assyria.

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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