14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
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In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; …
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-14)Here is, 1. The ground dry (Gen. 8:13), that is, all the water carried off it, which, upon the first day of the first month (a joyful new-year’s-day it was), Noah was himself an eye-witness of. He removed the covering of the ark , not the whole covering, but so much as would suffice to give him a prospect of the earth about it; and a most comfortable prospect he had. For behold, behold and wonder,…
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