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Genesis 8:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible. "
Genesis 8:5
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3 The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
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Genesis 8:1
"God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided."
Genesis 8:2
"The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained."
Genesis 8:3
"The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded."
Genesis 8:4
"The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains."
Genesis 8:6
"At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,"
Genesis 8:7
"and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth."
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