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Genesis 8:3
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and the water receded from the earth, going forth and returning, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased.
and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
And the waters from the earth returned, goyng and comming agayne: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftith day, the waters were abated.
The water that covered the earth began to go down. After 150 days the water was low enough that the boat touched land again. The boat stopped on one of the mountains of Ararat. This was the 17th day of the seventh month.
and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated;
And watrys turneden ayen fro erthe, and yeden ayen, and bigunnen to be decreessid aftir an hundrid and fifti daies.
And the waters returned from off the earth, continually: and after the end of the hundred and fiftie dayes, the waters were abated.
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
and the waters ranne styll awaye from ye earth, and decreased after an hundreth and fiftye dayes.
and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased.
and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.
and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
For one hundred fifty days the water slowly went down.
and the water came back from completely covering the earth. It was after 150 days that the water went down.
And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.
And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.
And the waters receded from the earth gradually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty clays the waters abated.
and the water gradually went down for 150 days.
The waters receded from off the eretz continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,
The water kept moving away from the earth. At the end of 150 days the water was less.
and the waters gradually receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had abated;
And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of an hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning, - and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
And the waters receded from the earth gradually, and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days.
And the waters retreated from the earth, going and retreating. And the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,
The water that covered the earth began to go down. After one hundred fifty days it had gone down so much that the boat touched land again. It came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.
The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly.
And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
continually: Heb. in going and returning
hundred: Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:24
Cross-References
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
The waters covered [all of] the earth for a hundred and fifty days (five months).
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the waters returned from off the earth continually,.... Or "going and returning" s; they went off from the earth, and returned to their proper places appointed for them; some were dried up by the wind, and exhaled by the sun into the air: and others returned to their channels and cavities in the earth, or soaked into it:
and after the end of the hundred and fifty days, the waters were abated; or began to abate, as Jarchi and the Vulgate Latin version; which days are to be reckoned from the beginning of the flood, including the forty days' rain; though Jarchi reckons them from the time of the ceasing of it; so that there were from the beginning of the flood one hundred and ninety days; six months, and ten days of the year of the flood now past; and in this he is followed by Dr. Lightfoot t: but the former reckoning seems best, and agrees better with what follows.
s הלוך ושוב, "eundo et redeundo", Pagninus, Montanus. t Works, vol. 1. p. 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- The Land Was Dried
1. שׁכך shākak “stoop, assuage.”
3. חסר chāsar “want, fail, be abated.”
4. אררט 'ărārāṭ, “Ararat,” a land forming part of Armenia. It is mentioned in 2 Kings 19:37, and Isaiah 37:38, as the retreat of Adrammelek and Sharezer after the murder of their father; and in Jeremiah 51:27 as a kingdom.
8. קלל qālal, “be light, lightened, lightly esteemed, swift.”
10. חוּל chûl, “twist, turn, dance, writhe, tremble, be strong, wait.” יהל yāchal “remain, wait, hope.”
13. חרב chāreb, “be drained, desolated, amazed.”
Genesis 8:1-3
The waters commence their retreat. “And God remembered Noah.” He is said to remember him when he takes any step to deliver him from the waters. The several steps to this end are enumerated.
A wind. - This would promote evaporation, and otherwise aid the retreat of the waters. “The fountains of the deep and the windows of the skies were shut.” The incessant and violent showers had continued for six weeks. It is probable the weather remained turbid and moist for some time longer. In the sixth month, however, the rain probably ceased altogether. Some time before this, the depressing of the ground had reached its lowest point, and the upheaving had set in. This is the main cause of the reflux of the waters. All this is described, as we perceive, according to appearance. It is probable that the former configuration of the surface was not exactly restored. At all events it is not necessary, as the ark may have drifted a considerable space in a hundred and fifty days. Some of the old ground on which primeval man had trodden may have become a permanent water bed, and a like amount of new land may have risen to the light in another place. Hence, it is vain to seek for a spot retaining the precise conditions of the primitive Eden. The Euphrates and Tigris may substantially remain, but the Pishon and Gihon may have considerably changed. The Black Sea, the Caspian, the lakes Van and Urumiah may cover portions of the Adamic land. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the prevalence of the waters begins to turn into a positive retreat.
Genesis 8:4-5
The ark rested. - It is stranded on some hill in Ararat. This country forms part of Armenia. As the drying wind most probably came from the east or north, it is likely that the ark was drifted toward Asia Minor, and caught land on some hill in the reaches of the Euphrates. It cannot be supposed that it rested on either of the peaks now called Ararat, as Ararat was a country, not a mountain, and these peaks do not seem suitable for the purpose. The seventh month began usually with the new moon nearest the vernal equinox, or the 21st of March. “The tenth month.” The waters ceased to prevail on the first of the ninth month. The ark, though grounded six weeks before, was still deep in the waters. The tops of the hills began to appear a month after. The subsiding of the waters seems to have been very slow.
Genesis 8:6-12
The raven and the dove are sent out to bring tidings of the external world. “Forty days.” Before Noah made any experiment he seems to have allowed the lapse of forty days to undo the remaining effect of the forty days’ rain. “The window.” He seems to have been unable to take any definite observations through the aperture here called a window. The raven found carrion in abundance, floated probably on the waters, and did not need to return. This was such a token of the state of things as Noah might expect from such a messenger. He next sends the dove, who returns to him. “Yet other seven days.” This intimates that he stayed seven days also after the raven was sent out. The olive leaf plucked off was a sign of returning safety to the land. It is said by Theophrastus (Hist. Plant. 4, 7) and Pliny (H. N. 13, 50) that the olive strikes leaves even under water. From this event, the olive branch became the symbol of peace, and the dove the emblem of the Comforter, the messenger of peace. After seven other days, the dove being despatched, returns no more. The number seven figures very conspicuously in this narrative. Seven days before the showers commence the command to enter the ark is given; and at intervals of seven days the winged messengers are sent out. These intervals point evidently to the period of seven days, determined by the six days of creation and the seventh day of rest. The clean beasts also and the birds are admitted into the ark by seven pairs. This points to the sacredness associated with the number arising from the hallowed character of the seventh day. The number forty also, the product of four, the number of the world or universe, and ten the number of completeness, begins here to be employed for a complete period in which a process will have run its course.
Genesis 8:13-14
Noah delays apparently another month, and, on the first day of the new year, ventures to remove the covering of the ark and look around. The date of the complete drying of the land is then given. The interval from the entrance to the exit consists of the following periods:
| Rain continued | 40 days |
| Waters prevailed | 150 days |
| Waters subside | 99 days |
| Noah delays | 40 days |
| Sending of the raven and the dove | 20 days |
| Another month | 29 days |
| Interval until the 27th of the 2nd month | 57 days |
| Sum-total of days | 365 days |
Hence, it appears that the interval was a lunar year of three hundred and fifty-six days nearly, and ten days; that is, as nearly as possible, a solar year. This passage is important on account of the divisions of time which it brings out at this early epoch. The week of seven days is plainly intimated. The lunar month and year are evidently known. It is remarkable that the ten additional days bring up the lunar year in whole numbers to the solar. It seems a tacit agreement with the real order of nature. According to the Hebrew text, the deluge commenced in the 1656th year of the race of man. According to all texts it occurred in the time of Noah, the ninth in descent from Adam.
