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Genesis 1-8 (Translated) (view source)
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|And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
|And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
|The ark ran aground on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, in the mountains of Ararat.
|The ark ran aground on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, in some of the highest mountains in the region.
|The date is 17 [[Abib]] 1656 [[Anno Mundi|AM]], or April 18, 2347 BC (proleptic Gregorian).
|The date is 17 [[Abib]] 1656 [[Anno Mundi|AM]], or April 18, 2347 BC (proleptic Gregorian).
The [[Hebrew]] '''אררט''' (''ararat'') is the name of a mountain range in eastern [[Armenia]], not necessarily including the "[[Mount Ararat]]" in [[Turkey (country)|Turkey]].
The [[Hebrew]] '''אררט''' (''Urartu'') is not necessarily the name of a mountain range in eastern [[Armenia]], that includes a particular mountain named "[[Mount Ararat]]" in [[Turkey (country)|Turkey]]. It could also be the [[Assyria]]n word for "highest."
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|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 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.
|The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month, so that on the first day of the tenth month, the mountaintops became visible.
|The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month, so that on the first day of the tenth month, the mountaintops became visible.
|1 Tammuz 1656 AM, or 30 June 2347 BC (proleptic Gregorian).
|1 Tammuz 1656 AM, or 30 June 2347 BC (proleptic Gregorian). These post-Flood mountains were likely higher than any pre-Flood mountains.
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|And 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.
|And 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.
|The dove came back to him that evening, but, to Noah's delighted surprise, it had an [[olive]] leaf plucked off in its beak. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down significantly.
|The dove came back to him that evening, but, to Noah's delighted surprise, it had an [[olive]] leaf plucked off in its beak. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down significantly.
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|That an olive tree had taken root so soon was a minor miracle and could have been an intended sign.
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