Genesis 8:4

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The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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  • 2 Kgs 19:37 : 37 While he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They fled to the land of Ararat, and his son Esarhaddon reigned in his place.
  • Isa 37:38 : 38 While he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esarhaddon reigned in his place.
  • Jer 51:27 : 27 Raise a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations for battle against her. Summon the kingdoms: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her. Bring up horses like swarming locusts!
  • Gen 7:17-19 : 17 The flood continued on the earth for forty days. The waters rose and lifted the ark, and it was raised high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters prevailed greatly on the earth, covering all the high mountains under the entire sky.

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  • Gen 8:5-15
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    5The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

    6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.

    7He sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

    8Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

    9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to the ark, for the waters were still over the surface of the whole earth. Noah reached out his hand, took her, and brought her back to himself in the ark.

    10He waited another seven days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

    11The dove came back to him in the evening, and in her beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Noah then knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

    12He waited another seven days and sent out the dove once again, but she did not return to him anymore.

    13In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

    14By the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was completely dry.

    15Then God spoke to Noah, saying:

  • Gen 8:1-3
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    1And God remembered Noah, along with all the living creatures and the animals that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.

    3The waters continued to recede from the earth, steadily decreasing, and after one hundred and fifty days, the waters had diminished.

  • Gen 7:17-20
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    17The flood continued on the earth for forty days. The waters rose and lifted the ark, and it was raised high above the earth.

    18The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

    19The waters prevailed greatly on the earth, covering all the high mountains under the entire sky.

    20The waters rose to a height of fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them completely.

  • Gen 7:10-13
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    10And after seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

    11In 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 windows of the heavens were opened.

    12And the rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

    13On that very day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons, entered the ark.

  • Gen 7:24
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    24The waters prevailed on the earth for one hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 7:4
    71%

    4For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out every living thing I have made from the face of the ground.

  • 1 Sam 6:1
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    1The ark of the LORD remained in the territory of the Philistines for seven months.

  • Gen 8:19
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    19Every living thing, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark, family by family.

  • Gen 7:6-7
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    6Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

    7Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

  • 1 Kgs 8:7
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    7The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the Ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the Ark and its poles from above.

  • Exod 16:30
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    30So the people rested on the seventh day.