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Genesis 8:4 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. "
Genesis 8:4
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The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
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Genesis 8:1
"And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;"
Genesis 8:1
"And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down."
Genesis 8:2
"The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;"
Genesis 8:2
"And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped."
Genesis 8:3
"And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated."
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