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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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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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.
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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.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which was the month of December.
Which was the month of December.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the…
Gen 8:5 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.
Ver. 5. The waters decreased.] Not all on the sudden, but by little and little, for exercise of Noah’s faith. "He that believeth maketh not haste". {Isa 28:16} God limiteth our sufferings for time, manner, and measure. Joseph was a prisoner till the time came. Smyrna was in tribulation for ten days. Physic must have a time to work; and gold must lie some while in the fire. "In the opportunity of time," saith Peter, "God will exalt you." {εν καιρω, 1Pe 5:6} Prescribe not to him, with those Bethulians in Judith; but wait his leisure, and let him do what is good in his own eyes. He waits a fit season to show us mercy, {Isa 30:18} and thinks as long of the time as we do.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month,....…
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month,.... That is, from the seventeenth of the seventh month, to the first of the tenth month, a space of two months and thirteen days, and being summer time, through the heat of the sun, they decreased apace:
in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen; not the tenth month of the flood, but of the year; the month Tammuz, as the Targum of Jonathan, and answers to part of June, and part of July; and the first day of this month, according to Bishop Usher (h), was Sunday the nineteenth of July: but according to Jarchi, whom Dr. Lightfoot (i) follows, this was the month Ab, which answers to July and August, the tenth from Marchesvan, when the rain began.
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(h) Ut supra. (Annales Vet. Test. p. 4.) (i) Ut supra. (Works, vol 1. p. 6.)
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The tops of the mountains were seen - Like…
The tops of the mountains were seen - Like little islands appearing above water. They felt ground above forty days before they saw it, according to Dr. Lightfoots's computation, whence he infers that if the waters decreased proportionably, the ark drew eleven cubits in water.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain And the waters decreased continually--The decrease of the waters…
And the waters decreased continually--The decrease of the waters was for wise reasons exceedingly slow and gradual--the period of their return being nearly twice as long as that of their rise.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. Waters decreased — Hebrews, the waters were going…
5. Waters decreased — Hebrews, the waters were going and decreasing (steadily decreasing) until the tenth month. The waters slowly settled for two months and thirteen days after the ark rested, until, on the first day of the tenth month, (of the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,) the mountain tops were seen. The various epochs of the narrative are given in the years, months, and days of the life of Noah. It commenced (Gen_7:11) in his six hundredth year, second month, and seventeenth day, and ended (Gen_8:13) in his six hundred and first year, first month, and first day.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5 (P). the tenth month] Another date is here…
5 (P). the tenth month] Another date is here given. The tops of other mountains were visible on the 1st day of the 10th month. Reckoning 30 days for a month, we thus have an interval of 73 days between the grounding of the ark upon the mountains of Ararat and the visibility of the other mountains.
tops of the mountains] This detail in the narrative suggests that Ararat was thought to be a lonely peak towering above all the neighbouring mountains.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) Seen.—See Note on Gen_8:4.
(5) Seen.—See Note on Gen_8:4.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the waters decreased continually literally, were going and…
And the waters decreased continually literally, were going and decreasinguntil the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, chodesh, a lunar month, beginning at the new moon, from chadash, to be new; neomhnia, LXX. (of Exo_13:5) Chodesh yamim, the period of a month (cf. Gen_29:14; Num_11:20, Num_11:21) were the tops of the mountains seen. "Became distinctly visible" (Tayler Lewis, who thinks they may have previously projected above the waters). Apparuerunt cacumina montium (Vulgate). The waters had now been subsiding ten weeks, and as the height of the water above the highest hills was probably determined by the draught of the ark, we may naturally reason that the subsidence which had taken place since the seventeenth day of the seventh month was not less than three hundred and fifteen inches, at twenty-one inches to the cubit, or about four and one-third inches a day.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain tenth month
tenth month
i.e. January.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:5 the waters continued to go down: Another parallel…
8:5 the waters continued to go down: Another parallel with the creation week (see 1:9) suggests that the earth’s restoration was effectively a new creation (see study note on 8:1).
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