Genesis 8:6

6 After 40 more days Noah opened the window he had made in the ship

Genesis 8:6 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 8:6

And it came to pass at the end of forty days
From the appearance of the mountains, that is, from the first day of the tenth month, to forty days after; and being ended, this must be the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the month Ab, which answers to July and August; and according to Bishop Usher ^F11 it was Friday the twenty eighth of August:

that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;
of which (See Gill on Genesis 6:16).

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Ut supra. (Annales Vet. Test. p. 4.)

Genesis 8:6 In-Context

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ship came to rest in the mountains of Ararat.

5 The water kept decreasing until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

6 After 40 more days Noah opened the window he had made in the ship

7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water on the land had dried up.

8 Next, he sent out a dove to see if the water was gone from the surface of the ground.