Genesis 8:5
And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.
6And it came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Cross References
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the + 7:11 Or, bars, or, cataracts. flood-gates of heaven were 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 →