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Genesis 8:13 KJV
Genesis · chapter 8 · verse 13
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.Genesis 8:13 · King James Version
Genesis 8:13 in context
11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- hundredthmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- removedçûwrto turn offH5493 →
- watersmayimwaterH4325 →
- firstriʼshôwnfirst, in place, time or rankH7223 →
- firstʼechâdproperly, unitedH259 →
- monthchôdeshthe new moonH2320 →
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Here is, 1. The ground dry (Gen 8:13), that is, all the water carried off it, which, upon the first day of the first month (a joyful new-year's-day it was), Noah was himself an eye-witness of.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-14