Holy Scripture

Genesis 8:3

A church father on this verse
“The springs of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were open forty days and forty nights and "the ark was afloat for one hundred fifty days." But after one hundred fifty days the waters began to subside and the ark came to rest on Mt. Qardu. In the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen. In the six hundred…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 6.11.2-6.12.1

Source: Septuagint

Original

3And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after a hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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1And God remembered Noah, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.

2And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the floodgates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

— Genesis 8:3 —

4And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

5And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

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