World English Bible
Genesis 8:5
“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 seen.”
Verse in context — Genesis 8
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The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
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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 seen.
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It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
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and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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