The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 8:4 in context
Genesis 8:1–7
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God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
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The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
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The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
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The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
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The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
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At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
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and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
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