Genesis 8:5

5 The waters decreased gradually until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the mountain peaks appeared.

Genesis 8:5 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 8:5

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month,
&c.] That is, from the seventeenth of the seventh month, to the first of the tenth month, a space of two months and thirteen days, and being summer time, through the heat of the sun, they decreased apace:

in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the
tops of the mountains seen;
not the tenth month of the flood, but of the year; the month Tammuz, as the Targum of Jonathan, and answers to part of June, and part of July; and the first day of this month, according to Bishop Usher ^F8, was Sunday the nineteenth of July: but according to Jarchi, whom Dr. Lightfoot ^F9 follows, this was the month Ab, which answers to July and August, the tenth from Marchesvan, when the rain began.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Ut supra. (Annales Vet. Test. p. 4.)
F9 Ut supra. (Works, vol 1. p. 6.)

Genesis 8:5 In-Context

3 The waters receded gradually from the earth. After one hundred fifty days, the waters decreased;

4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day, the ark came to rest on the Ararat mountains.

5 The waters decreased gradually until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the mountain peaks appeared.

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

7 He sent out a raven, and it flew back and forth until the waters over the entire earth had dried up.