Genesis 8:5

Contemporary English Version 1995

The water kept going down, and the mountain tops could be seen on the first day of the tenth month.

Cross References

Genesis 7:11

The water under the earth started gushing out everywhere, the sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for 40 days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.

Genesis 8:3

For 150 days the water slowly went down.

Genesis 8:4

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

Genesis 8:6

Forty days later Noah opened a window to send out a raven, but it kept flying around until the water had dried up.