Genesis Chapter 8 verse 5 Holy Bible
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.
read chapter 8 in ASV
And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.
read chapter 8 in BBE
And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month], on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
read chapter 8 in DARBY
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.
read chapter 8 in KJV
And the waters decreased continually, till the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
read chapter 8 in WBT
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 seen.
read chapter 8 in WEB
and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth `month', on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - And the waters decreased continually - literally, were going and decreasing - until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, - chodesh, a lunar month, beginning at the new moon, from chadash, to be new; νεομηνία, LXX. (cf. Exodus 13:5). Chodesh yamim, the period of a month (cf. Genesis 29:14; Numbers 11:20, 21) - were the tops of the mountains seen. "Became distinctly visible" (Tayler Lewis, who thinks they may have previously projected above the waters). Apparuerunt cacumina montium (Vulgate). The waters had now been subsiding ten weeks, and as the height of the water above the highest hills was probably determined by the draught of the ark, we may naturally reason that the subsidence which had taken place since the seventeenth day of the seventh month was not less than three hundred and fifteen inches, at twenty-one inches to the cubit, or about four and one-third inches a day.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Seen.--See Note on Genesis 8:4.
