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Genesis 8:4
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In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
And in the seuen moneth, in the seuenteenth day of ye moneth, the arke rested vpon the mountaynes of Armenia.
and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ar'arat.
And the schip restide in the seuenthe monthe, in the seuene and twentithe dai of the monthe, on the hillis of Armenye.
And the Arke rested in the seuenth moneth, on the seuenteenth day of the moneth, vpon the mountaines of Ararat.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Vpon the seuentene daye of the seuenth moneth rested the Arcke vpon the mountaynes of Ararat.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ship landed on the Ararat mountain range. The water kept going down until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains came into view. After forty days Noah opened the window that he had built into the ship.
Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.
Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
Then on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the year, the boat came to rest somewhere in the Ararat mountains.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
And in the seuenth moneth, in the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the Arke rested vpon the mountaines of Ararat.
And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Kardo.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.
The teivah rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the large boat came to rest on Mount Ararat.
and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
And the ark rested, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, - on the mountains of Ararat.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat.
and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the ark: Genesis 7:17-19
seventh month: That is, of the year, not of the deluge.
Ararat: Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia, as it is rendered elsewhere, in which there is a great chain of mountains, like the Alps or the Pyrenees, upon the highest part of which, called by some, "The Finger Mountain," the ark is supposed to have rested. 2 Kings 19:37, Isaiah 37:38, Jeremiah 51:27
Reciprocal: Genesis 7:24 - General 1 Samuel 25:9 - ceased
Cross-References
"Bring out with you every living thing from all flesh—birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth—that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
Every animal, every crawling thing, every bird—and whatever moves on the land—went out by families (types, groupings) from the ark.
It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with a sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.
It came to pass as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat [in Armenia]. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.
Lift up a signal in the land [to spread the news]! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Dedicate the nations [for war] against her; Call against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a marshal against her; Cause the horses to come up like bristly locusts [with their wings not yet released from their cases].
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,.... That is, five months after the flood began, and when the waters began to decrease; for this is not the seventh month of the flood, but of the year, which being reckoned from Tisri, or the autumnal equinox, must be the month Nisan, which answers to part of our March, and part of April; and so the Targum of Jonathan explains it,
"this is the month Nisan;''
but Jarchi makes it to be the month Sivan, which answers to part of May, and part of June, taking it to be the seventh month from Cisleu, when the forty days' rain ceased; in which he is followed by Dr. Lightfoot u; and according to Bishop Usher w the seventeenth day of the seventh month, on which the ark rested, was Wednesday the sixth of May: and then it rested
upon the mountains of Ararat; that is, on one of them, for Ararat is said to be a long ridge of mountains like the Alps, or the Pyrenean mountains; which, as Sir Walter Raleigh x thinks, are the same which run through Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, c. and are by Pliny y called Taurus. But what is now called Ararat, and by the Armenians Messis or Macis, and by the Turks Augri-daugh or Agrida, is a single mountain, and is so high that it overtops all the mountains thereabout and that which makes it seem so very high is, that it stands by itself in the form of a sugar loaf, in the middle of one of the greatest plains one can see; it has two tops, one greater, and the smaller is most sharp pointed of the two z. The Vulgate Latin version renders it the mountains of Armenia; and so Ararat in the Septuagint of Isaiah 37:38 is rendered Armenia, and in our version also; and it is the more commonly received opinion, that Ararat was a mountain there; and this agrees with the testimonies of various Heathen writers, which are produced by Josephus and Eusebius. Berosus the Chaldean a says,
"it is reported that in Armenia, on a mountain of the Cordyaeans, there is part of a ship, the pitch of which some take off, and carry about with them, and use it as an amulet to avert evils.''
And Nicholas of Damascus b relates, that in Minyas in Armenia is an huge mountain called Baris, to which, as the report is, many fled at the flood, and were saved; and that a certain person, carried in an ark or chest, struck upon the top of it, and that the remains of the timber were preserved a long time after; and, adds he, perhaps he may be the same that Moses, the lawgiver of the Jews, writes of. Now this mountain seems plainly to have its name from the ark of Noah, for a boat, or ship, is, with the Egyptians, called Baris. Herodotus c gives a large account of ships they call by this name; and the boat in which Charon is said to carry the dead bodies over the lake Acherusia, near Memphis, is said by Diodorus Siculus d to have the same name. Abydenus the Assyrian e tells us, that
"Saturn having foretold to Sisithrus, that there would be a vast quantity of rain on the fifteenth of the month Daesius, he immediately sailed to the Armenians; and that the ship being driven to Armenia, the inhabitants made amulets of the wood of it, which they carried about their necks, as antidotes against diseases.''
And hence Melo f, who wrote against the Jews, suggests, as if the deluge did not reach Armenia; for he says,
"at the deluge a man that had escaped with his sons went from Armenia, being driven out of his possession by those of the country, and passing over the intermediate region, came into the mountainous part of Syria, which was desolate.''
And with what Berosus says of a mountain of the Cordyaeans, in Armenia, agree the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and the Syriac and Arabic versions, who all render the words here the mountains of Cardu or Carda: from the resting of the ark on this day on the mountains of Ararat, Jarchi concludes, and Dr. Lightfoot g after him, that the ark drew eleven cubits water, which, according to them, thus appears; on the first day of the month Ab, the mountain tops were first seen, and then the waters had fallen fifteen cubits, which they had been sixty days in doing, namely, from the first day of Sivan, and so they had abated the proportion of one cubit in four days: by this account we find, that on the sixteenth day of Sivan they had abated but four cubits, and yet on the next day, the seventeenth, the ark resteth on a hill, where the waters yet lay eleven cubits above it.
u Works. vol. 1. p. 8. w Annales Vet. Test. p. 4. x History of the World, B. 1. ch. 7. sect. 13. y Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 27. z Cartwright's Preacher's Travels, p. 32. Tournefort's Voyage to the Levant, vol. 3. p. 177, 183, 186. a Apud Joseph. Antiqu. l. 1. c. 3. sect. 6. b Apud ib. c Euterpe sive, l. 2. c. 96. d Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 87. e Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 12. p. 414, 415. f Apud ib. c. 19. p. 420. g Ut supra, (Works. vol. 1.) p. 8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- The Land Was Dried
1. ש××× shaÌkak âstoop, assuage.â
3. ×סר chaÌsar âwant, fail, be abated.â
4. ××¨×¨× 'aÌraÌraÌtÌ£, âArarat,â 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. ק×× qaÌlal, âbe light, lightened, lightly esteemed, swift.â
10. ××Ö¼× chuÌl, âtwist, turn, dance, writhe, tremble, be strong, wait.â ××× yaÌchal âremain, wait, hope.â
13. ××¨× chaÌreb, âbe drained, desolated, amazed.â
Genesis 8:1-3
The waters commence their retreat. âAnd God remembered Noah.â 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. âThe fountains of the deep and the windows of the skies were shut.â 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. âThe tenth month.â 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. âForty days.â Before Noah made any experiment he seems to have allowed the lapse of forty days to undo the remaining effect of the forty daysâ rain. âThe window.â 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. âYet other seven days.â 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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Genesis 8:4. The mountains of Ararat. — That Ararat was a mountain of Armenia is almost universally agreed. What is commonly thought to be the Ararat of the Scriptures, has been visited by many travellers, and on it there are several monasteries. For a long time the world has been amused with reports that the remains of the ark were still visible there; but Mr. Tournefort, a famous French naturalist, who was on the spot, assures us that nothing of the kind is there to be seen. As there is a great chain of mountains which are called by this name, it is impossible to determine on what part of them the ark rested; but the highest part, called by some the finger mountain, has been fixed on as the most likely place. These things we must leave, and they are certainly of very little consequence.
From the circumstance of the resting of the ark on the 17th of the seventh month, Dr. Light. foot draws this curious conclusion: That the ark drew exactly eleven cubits of water. On the first day of the month Ab the mountain tops were first seen, and then the waters had fallen fifteen cubits; for so high had they prevailed above the tops of the mountains. This decrease in the waters took up sixty days, namely, from the first of Sivan; so that they appear to have abated in the proportion of one cubit in four days. On the 16th of Sivan they had abated but four cubits; and yet on the next day the ark rested on one of the hills, when the waters must have been as yet eleven cubits above it. Thus it appears that the ark drew eleven cubits of water.
