A moment in scripture
Genesis 8:5
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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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The surrounding passage
- Genesis 8:3
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
- Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
- Genesis 8:6
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
- Genesis 8:7
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.