◄ Genesis 8:5 ►
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Good News Translation
The water kept going down, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.

New Revised Standard Version
The waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

Contemporary English Version
The water kept going down, and the mountain tops could be seen on the first day of the tenth month.

New American Bible
The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

decreased continually.

Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:

Context
The Ark Rests on Ararat
…4And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia. 5And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
Cross References
Genesis 8:3
And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

Genesis 8:6
And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:

Genesis 8:4
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