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Genesis 8:4
Genesis 8:4 is verse 4 of Genesis chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
King James Version
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.
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Genesis 8:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
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
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 7:17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Genesis 7:18So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
Genesis 7:19Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
2 Kings 19:37One 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 37:38One 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.