Genesis 8:4
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| Overview - Genesis 8 | |
| 1 | God remembers Noah, and assuages the waters. |
| 4 | The ark rests on Ararat. |
| 6 | Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove. |
| 13 | Noah, being commanded, goes forth from the ark. |
| 20 | He builds an altar, and offers sacrifice, which God accepts, and promises to curse the earth no more. |
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Genesis 8:4 (King James Version)
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
- the ark
- 7:17-19
- seventh month
- That is, of the year, not of the deluge.
- Ararat
- Ararat is generally understood to be Armenia, as it is rendered elsewhere, in which there is a great chain of mountains, like the Alps or the Pyrenees, upon the highest part of which, called by some, "The Finger Mountain," the ark is supposed to have rested.
- 2 Kings 19:37 ; Isaiah 37:38 ; Jeremiah 51:27