Genesis 8:5

5 The water kept going down until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

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 and the water came back from completely covering the earth. It was after 150 days that the water went down.

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

5 The water kept going down until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

6 After forty days Noach opened the window of the ark which he had built;

7 and he sent out a raven, which flew back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.