Genesis 8:5

5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

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 The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly.

4 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

6 After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

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