Genesis 8:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.

Genesis 8:3

For one hundred and fifty 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.