Genesis 8:5

And soothly the waters went and decreased till to the tenth month, for in the tenth month, in the first day of the month (or on the first day of the month), the tops of [the] hills appeared.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4And the ship rested in the seventh month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, on the hills of Armenia. (And the ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Mount Ararat.)

6And when forty days had passed, Noe opened the window of the ship which he had made,

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Cross References

Genesis 7:11In the six hundred (th) year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month (or on the seventeenth day of the month), all the wells of the great sea were broken, and the windows of (the) heaven (s) 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 →

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