Genesis 8:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

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  • 2 Kgs 19:37 : 37 One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
  • Isa 37:38 : 38 One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
  • Jer 51:27 : 27 “Raise up battle flags throughout the lands. Sound the trumpets calling the nations to do battle. Prepare the nations to do battle against Babylonia. Call for these kingdoms to attack her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Send horses against her like a swarm of locusts.
  • Gen 7:17-19 : 17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth. 18 The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

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  • Gen 8:5-15
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    5The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

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

    7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

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

    9The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

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

    11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

    12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

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

    14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

    15Then God spoke to Noah and said,

  • Gen 8:1-3
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    1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

    3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

  • Gen 7:17-20
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    17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

    18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

    19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

    20The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

  • Gen 7:10-13
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    10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed 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 floodgates of the heavens were opened.

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

    13On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.

  • Gen 7:24
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    24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 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 from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

  • 1 Sam 6:1
    70%

    1The Philistines Return the Ark When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines for seven months,

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

  • Gen 7:6-7
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    6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

    7Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

  • 1 Kgs 8:7
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    7The cherubim’s wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.

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