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Genesis 8:13

In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

  • KJV King James Version

    And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dried.

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  • When did the earth dry after the flood?

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Cross-references (1)

Passages linked to Genesis 8:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

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Explain this verse (18 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Called in Hebrew Abib, containing part of March and…

Called in Hebrew Abib, containing part of March and part of April.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 8:13 And it came to pass in the…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The words month and day are ofttimes, for brevity…
Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain Here is, 1. The ground dry (Gen 8:13), that…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And it came to pass, in the six hundred…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Noah removed the covering of the ark - Not…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 8:13-14. Noah removed the covering of the ark…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Year of Noe’s age, who, we may suppose, was…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Noah removed the covering of the ark--probably only as…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 13. First month — Noah waits another month before…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) The first day of the month.—It will be…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And it came to pass (literally, it was) in…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Noah removed the covering of the ark
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Gen_8:13-19
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain first month
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain Noah Leaves the Ark
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 It came about
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:13 On the first day of the new year,…

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