Genesis 8:4
New International Version
and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

New Living Translation
exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

English Standard Version
and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Berean Standard Bible
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

King James Bible
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

New King James Version
Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

New American Standard Bible
Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

NASB 1995
In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

NASB 1977
And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

Legacy Standard Bible
In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

Amplified Bible
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month [five months after the rain began], the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in Turkey].

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

American Standard Version
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, in the seventeenth of the month, on the mountains of Qardu—Kurdish.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

Contemporary English Version
Then on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the year, the boat came to rest somewhere in the Ararat mountains.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

English Revised Version
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ship came to rest in the mountains of Ararat.

Good News Translation
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.

International Standard Version
The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Literal Standard Version
And the Ark rests, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

Majority Standard Bible
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

New American Bible
that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

NET Bible
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

New Revised Standard Version
and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

New Heart English Bible
And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the vessel came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

World English Bible
The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

Young's Literal Translation
And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

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Context
The Ark Rests on Ararat
3The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. 4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5And 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.…

Cross References
Genesis 7:20
The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

Genesis 8:5
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.

2 Kings 19:37
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

Isaiah 37:38
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

Jeremiah 51:27
"Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram's horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her--Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.


Treasury of Scripture

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

the ark.

Genesis 7:17-19
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth…

seventh month.

Ararat.

2 Kings 19:37
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Isaiah 37:38
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Jeremiah 51:27
Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

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Genesis 8
1. God remembers Noah and calms 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 sacrifices,
21. which God accepts, and promises to curse the earth no more.














(4) The seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month.--As the months had each thirty days (see Note on Genesis 8:14), this makes exactly 150 days (see Genesis 7:11). The seventh civil month would be Abib; and the Speaker's Commentary notices the following remarkable coincidences:--"On the 17th day of Abib the ark rested on Mount Ararat; on the 17th day of Abib the Israelites passed over the Red Sea; on the 17th day of Abib, Christ, our Lord, rose again from the dead."

Ararat.--If in Genesis 11:2 the Authorised Version is right in saying that the descendants of Noah travelled "from the east" to Shinar, this could not be the Ararat of Armenia. Moreover, we are told that the word in, Assyrian means "highland," and thus may signify any hilly country. In the Chaldean Genesis the ark rests upon Nizir, a region to the east of Assyria, the highest peak of which, now named Elwend, is called in the cuneiform texts "the mountain of the world" ( Chaldean Genesis, p. 307). The rendering, however, "from the east," is by no means certain, and many translate "eastward," and even the Authorised Version renders the word east, that is, eastward, in Genesis 13:11. In 2Kings 19:37 "Ararat" is translated Armenia; but it is more correctly described in Jeremiah 51:27 as a country near Minni, that is, near Armenia. There are in this region two mountains of great altitude, the Aghri-Dagh and the Kara-Dagh, the highest of which is 17,260 feet above the sea-level; and naturally legend chooses this as the place where the ark settled. But the inspired narrative says that it rested "upon the mountains of Ararat," upon some chain of hills there, and seventy-three days afterwards Noah found himself surrounded by an amphitheatre of mountains, the word used in Genesis 8:5 being emphatic, and signifying "the tops of the mountains became distinctly visible," and not that they had just begun to emerge. For, doubtless, after so vast a flood, mists and vapours would for a long time prevail, and shut out the surrounding world from Noah's view. . . .

Verse 4. - And the ark rested. Not stopped sailing or floating, got becalmed, and remained suspended over (Kitto's 'Cyclop.,' art. Ararat), but actually grounded and settled on (Tayler Lewis) the place indicated by עַל (cf. ver. 9; also Exodus 10:14; Numbers 10:36; Numbers 11:25, 26; Isaiah 11:2). In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month. I.e. exactly 150 days from the commencement of the forty days' rain, reckoning thirty days to a month, which seems to confirm the opinion expressed (Genesis 7:24) that the forty days were included in the 150. Supposing the Flood to have begun in Marchesvan, the second month of the civil year (about the beginning of November), "we have then the remarkable coincidences that on the 17th day of Abib (about the beginning of April) the ark rested on Mount Ararat, the Israelites passed over the Red Sea, and our Lord rose again from the dead" ('Speaker's Commentary'). Upon the mountains. I.e. one of the mountains. "Pluralis numerus pro singulari ponitur" (cf. Genesis 21:7; Genesis 46:7; Judges 12:7; vide Glass., 'Philoh Seer. Tract.,' 1. cap. 14. p. 866). Of Ararat.

1. It is agreed by all that the term Ararat describes a region.

2. This region has been supposed to be the island of Ceylon (Samaritan), Aryavarta, the sacred land to the north of India (Van Bohlen, arguing from Genesis 11:2); but "it is evident that these and such like theories have been framed in forgetfulness of what the Bible has recorded respecting the locality" (Kitto's 'Cyclopedia,' art. Ararat).

3. The locality which appears to have the countenance of Scripture is the region of Armenia (cf. 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38; Jeremiah 51:27; Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, Vulgate). . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
On the seventeenth
בְּשִׁבְעָה־ (bə·šiḇ·‘āh-)
Preposition-b | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

day
י֖וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

of the seventh
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י (haš·šə·ḇî·‘î)
Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's 7637: Seventh (an ordinal number)

month,
בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ (ba·ḥō·ḏeš)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month

the ark
הַתֵּבָה֙ (hat·tê·ḇāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8392: A box, chest

came to rest
וַתָּ֤נַח (wat·tā·naḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5117: To rest, settle down

on
עַ֖ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the mountains
הָרֵ֥י (hā·rê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

of Ararat.
אֲרָרָֽט׃ (’ă·rā·rāṭ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 780: Ararat -- a district in eastern Armenia


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