Gênesis 8:3

3 As águas foram baixando pouco a pouco sobre a terra. Ao fim de cento e cinquenta dias, as águas tinham diminuído,

Gênesis 8:3 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 8:3

And the waters returned from off the earth continually,
&c.] Or "going and returning" ^F19; they went off from the earth, and returned to their proper places appointed for them; some were dried up by the wind, and exhaled by the sun into the air: and others returned to their channels and cavities in the earth, or soaked into it:

and after the end of the hundred and fifty days, the waters were
abated;
or began to abate, as Jarchi and the Vulgate Latin version; which days are to be reckoned from the beginning of the flood, including the forty days' rain; though Jarchi reckons them from the time of the ceasing of it; so that there were from the beginning of the flood one hundred and ninety days; six months, and ten days of the year of the flood now past; and in this he is followed by Dr. Lightfoot ^F20: but the former reckoning seems best, and agrees better with what follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (bwvw Kwlh) , "eundo et redeundo", Pagninus, Montanus.
F20 Works, vol. 1. p. 6.

Gênesis 8:3 In-Context

1 Então Deus lembrou-se de Noé e de todos os animais selvagens e rebanhos domésticos que estavam com ele na arca, e enviou um vento sobre a terra, e as águas começaram a baixar.

2 As fontes das profundezas e as comportas do céu se fecharam, e a chuva parou.

3 As águas foram baixando pouco a pouco sobre a terra. Ao fim de cento e cinquenta dias, as águas tinham diminuído,

4 e, no décimo sétimo dia do sétimo mês, a arca pousou nas montanhas de Ararate.

5 As águas continuaram a baixar até o décimo mês, e no primeiro dia do décimo mês apareceram os topos das montanhas.