And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Parallel translations
- WEB The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
- BSB On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
- NKJV Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
- NASB Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
- NLT exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The vessel of salvation finds solid ground.
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The ark resting on the mountains marks a concrete sign that judgment is passing and new life is near. The precise dating again roots the account in real history. This resting place becomes the launching point for the renewed world, where Noah's family will begin again under God's blessing.
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- Isa 37:38And 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.
- 2 Kgs 19:37And 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.
- Jer 51:27Set 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.
- Gen 7:17–19And 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.
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