Genesis 8:6

Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

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 ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.