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.
Gen 8:13-14
Noah removed the covering of the ark
Noahs first consciousness of safety after the deluge
I.
He would probably be impressed with the GREATNESS OF THE CALAMITY HE HAD ESCAPED. The roaring waters had subsided, but they had wrought a terrible desolation, they had reduced the earth to a vast charnel house; every living voice is hushed, and all is silent as the grave. The patriarch, perhaps, would feel two things in relation to this calamity.
1. That it was the result of sin.
2. That it was only a faint type of the final judgment.
II. He would probably be impressed with the EFFICACY OF THE REMEDIAL EXPEDIENT. How would he admire the ark that had so nobly battled with the billows and so safely weathered the storm!
1. This expedient was Divine. Christianity, the great expedient for saving souls from the deluge of moral evil, is Gods plan. What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh. Philosophy exhausted itself in the trial.
2. This expedient alone was effective. When the dreadful storm came, we may rest assured that every one of that terror-stricken generation would seize some scheme to rescue him from the doom. There is no other name, etc.
3. The expedient was only effective to those who committed themselves to it.
III. He would probably be impressed with the WISDOM OF HIS FAITH IN GOD. He felt now–
1. That it was wiser to believe in the Word of God than to trust to the conclusions of his own reason.
2. That it was wiser to believe in the Word of God than to trust to the uniformity of nature.
3. That it was wiser to believe in Gods Word than to trust to the current opinion of his contemporaries. (Homilist.)
Lessons
1. The giving in of one step of mercy maketh Gods saints to wait for more.
2. Gods gracious ones desire to let patience have its perfect work towards God.
3. The saints disposition is to have experience of mercy by trying means, as well as to wait for it.
4. In the withholding of return of means may be the return of mercy. Though the dove stay, yet mercy cometh.
5. Providence promotes the comfort of saints when He seems to stop them, as in staying the clove (Gen 8:12).
6. As times of special mercy are recorded by God, so they should be remembered by the Church.
7. At His appointed periods God measures out mercy unto His Church.
8. The saints patient waiting would God have recorded, as well as His performing mercies.
9. As mercies move to Gods Church, so He moveth His saints to remove veils and meet them.
10. Manifestations of mercies God vouchsafeth His, as well as mercy itself.
11. Several periods of time God takes to perfect salvation to His Church.
12. After all patient waiting, in Gods full time full and complete mercy and salvation is given into His Church (Gen 8:13). (G. Hughes, B. D.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
The words month and day are ofttimes, for brevity sake, omitted by the Hebrews, as being easily understood. Thus the first of the feast, Mat 26:17, is the first day of the feast, Mar 14:12.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
13, 14. Noah removed the covering ofthe arkprobably only as much of it as would afford him aprospect of the earth around. Yet for about two months he neverstirred from his appointed abode till he had received the expresspermission of God. We should watch the leading of Providence todirect us in every step of the journey of life.
Ge8:15-22. DEPARTURE FROM THEARK.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And it came to pass, in the six hundred and first year,…. Of Noah’s life, and so the Septuagint adds, in the first month,
[the first day] of the month; so that it was the first day of the year, New Year’s Day, and a joyful one it was to Noah and his family, when they saw dry ground; which they had not seen for above ten months: according to R. Joshua, this was the month Nisan, which was the first month with the Jews on sacred accounts; but according to R. Eliezer it was the month of Tisri, as Jarchi observes, which was their first month on civil accounts, and was their most ancient way of reckoning; and so the Targum of Jonathan explains it, adding, and Tisri; which answers to part of September, and part of October; and according to Bishop Usher x, this day was Friday, October 23, A. M. 1657:
the waters were dried up from off the earth: by the wind that continued to pass over it, and by the sun, which exhaled great quantities of it throughout the whole summer season; as it was from the end of the one hundred days, when the wind was first made, and the waters began to assuage to this time; as well as also by their soaking into the earth, and by returning to the cavities and receptacles in it:
and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked; not the roof of it, at least not the whole, only a board or two; though perhaps this was a covering made of skins, that was thrown over the ark, like that which was put over the tabernacle of Moses, and was made of skins,
Ex 26:14 where the same word is used as here: the use of this might be to hang over the window and defend it from the rain; so that the uncovering of the ark was only putting by, or turning up this covering, that he might be able more clearly to see, out of the window, how things were:
and, behold, the face of the ground was dry; the ground or surface of the earth looked dry; but was not so dry and hard as to bear heavy bodies, or the foot to tread on it, being soft and tender, through the water so long upon it, and had left mud and slime, not yet sufficiently hardened by the wind and sun to walk upon.
x Ut supra. (Annales Vet. Test. p. 4.)
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Noah waited some time, and then, on the first day of the first month, in the 601st year of his life, removed the covering from the ark, that he might obtain a freer prospect over the earth. He could see that the surface of the earth was dry; but it was not till the 27th day of the second month, 57 days, therefore, after the removal of the roof, that the earth was completely dried up. Then God commanded him to leave the ark with his family and all the animals; and so far as the latter were concerned, He renewed the blessing of the creation (Gen 8:17 cf. Gen 1:22). As the flood commenced on the 17th of the second month of the 600th year of Noah’s life, and ended on the 27th of the second month of the 601st year, it lasted a year and ten days; but whether a solar year of 360 of 365 days, or a lunar year of 352, is doubtful. The former is the more probable, as the first five months are said to have consisted of 150 days, which suits the solar year better than the lunar. The question cannot be decided with certainty, because we neither know the number of days between the 17th of the seventh month and the 1st of the tenth month, nor the interval between the sending out of the dove and the 1st day of the first month of the 601st year.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
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. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Here is, 1. The ground dry (v. 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. He removed the covering of the ark, not the whole covering, but so much as would suffice to give him a prospect of the earth about it; and a most comfortable prospect he had. For behold, behold and wonder, the face of the ground was dry. Note, (1.) It is a great mercy to see ground about us. Noah was more sensible of it than we are; for mercies restored are much more affecting than mercies continued. (2.) The divine power which now renewed the face of the earth can renew the face of an afflicted troubled soul and of a distressed persecuted church. He can make dry ground to appear even where it seemed to have been lost and forgotten, Ps. xviii. 16. 2. The ground dried (v. 14), so as to be a fit habitation for Noah. Observe, Though Noah saw the ground dry the first day of the first month, yet God would not suffer him to go out of the ark till the twenty-seventh day of the second month. Perhaps Noah, being somewhat weary of his restraint, would have quitted the ark at first; but God, in kindness to him, ordered him to stay so much longer. Note, God consults our benefit rather than our desires; for he knows what is good for us better than we do for ourselves, and how long it is fit our restraints should continue and desired mercies should be delayed. We would go out of the ark before the ground is dried: and perhaps, if the door be shut, are ready to remove the covering, and to climb up some other way; but we should be satisfied that God’s time of showing mercy is certainly the best time, when the mercy is ripe for us and we are ready for it.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
Verses 13, 14:
The evidence suggests that the year at this time was calculated as twelve months of thirty days each, with five days intercalculated at the end to make up the solar year of 365 days. One year from the time that the flood began the waters finally dried up. On the first anniversary of his entrance into the ark, Noah removed the “cover,” or part of the top deck of the ark, and saw that the ground was dry. One month and twenty-seven days later the earth was completely dried up from the flood waters. Three Hebrew verbs denote the gradual progression of the process. In verse 11 the verb qalal is “to be lightened,” denoting abatement. In verse 13 the verb chareb is “to be dried up,” denoting the water’s disappearance. In verse 14, the verb yabesh means “to dry thoroughly.”
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.Gen. 8:13-19
MANS GOING FORTH AFTER THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD
I. That he goes forth upon the Divine command. And God spake unto Noah, saying, go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons wives with thee.
1. That Noah was councilled to go forth from the ark on a day ever to be remembered. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Men should always keep the chronology of their moral life, the days of deliverance from unwelcome circumstances should be carefully remembered; this will aid the gratitude of the soul. Every great soul has its calendar of progress. There are some days men can never forget. The day on which Noah came out of the ark would be an immortal memory.
2. That Noah was commanded to go out from the ark when the earth was dry. God never commands a man to leave his refuge or his circumstances under conditions that would render it indiscreet to do so. He waits till all is ready, and at the most fitting moment tells the good man to go forth from his hiding place into the new sphere of activity. Men should not step out of the ark until the earth is dry enough to receive them, and then only at the call of God.
II. That he goes forth in reflective spirit. We can readily imagine that Noah would go forth from the ark in very reflective and somewhat pensive mood.
1. He would think of the multitudes who had been drowned in the great waters. As he stepped out of the ark and his eye only rested on his own little family as the occupants of the earth, his heart would be grieved to think of the multitudes who had been destroyed by the deluge. True he was glad to escape from the close confinement of the ark, but his own joy would be rendered pensive by the devastation everywhere apparent. And when the judgments of God upon the wicked are observed in the earth, it is fitting that men should be thoughtful.
2. He would think of his own immediate conduct of life, and of the future before him. When Noah came forth from the ark, he stood in a world destitute of inhabitants, and equally destitute of seed and harvest. He would have to engage in the work of cultivating the soil and in providing for the needs of the future. He is now entering upon an anxious and laborious life. How few men truly realize that the future of the world depends upon their industry. The once solitary husbandman is now forgotten in the crowd of those who culture the earth.
III. That he goes forth in company with those who have shared his safety.
1. He goes forth in company with the relatives of his own family. Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons wives with thee. God permitted the family of Noah to be with him in the ark, to relieve his solitude, to aid his efforts, to show the protective influence of true piety; and now they are to join him in the possession of the regenerated earth, that they may enjoy its safety, and aid its cultivation.
2. He goes forth in company with the life-giving agencies of the universe. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth; after their kinds went forth out of the ark. And thus this motley and miscellaneous crowd came out of the ark to fill creation with its usual life.
SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS ON THE VERSES
NOAHS FIRST CONSCIOUSNESS OF SAFETY AFTER THE DELUGE
Gen. 8:13. Now, it is somewhat natural, and it may not be either uninteresting or unprofitable, to speculate concerning Noahs impression on his first out-look upon the face of the ground that was dry.
I. He would, probably, be impressed with the Greatness of the Calamity he had Escaped. The roaring waters had subsided, but they had wrought a terrible desolation, they had reduced the earth to a vast charnel house; every living voice is hushed, and all is silent as the grave. The Patriarch perhaps would feel two things in relation to this calamity.
1. That it was the result of sin.
2. That it was only a faint type of the final judgment.
II. He would probably be impressed with the Efficacy of the Remedial Expedient. How would he admire the ark that had so nobly battled with the billows and so safely weathered the storm?
1. This expedient was Divine. Christianity, the great expedient for saving souls from the deluge of moral evil, is Gods plan. What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh. Philosophy exhausted itself in the trial.
2. This expedient alone was effective. When the dreadful storm came we may rest assured that every one of that terror-stricken generation would seize some scheme to rescue him from the doom. There is no other name, &c.
3. The expedient was only effective to those who committed themselves to it.
III. He would probably be impressed with the wisdom of his faith in God. He felt now:
1. That it was wiser to believe in the word of God, than to trust to the conclusions of his own reason. He might have reasoned from the mercy of God, and the general experience of mankind, that such an event as the deluge would never have happened; but he trusted in Gods word.
2. That it was wiser to believe in the Word of God, than to trust to the uniformity of nature.
3. That it was wiser to believe in Gods Word, than to trust to the current opinion of his contemporaries. Now, will not the feeling of the good man when he first enters heaven, correspond in some measure with the feelings of Noah on the occasion when he first looked from his ark, saw the face of the dry ground, and felt that he was safe? Will there not be a similar impression of the tremendous calamity that has been escaped? Will not the sainted spirit, as it feels itself safe in the celestial state, reflect with ordinary gratitude upon that deluge of sin and suffering from which it has been for ever delivered. (Homilist.)
As the flood commenced on the 17th of the second month of the 600th year of Noahs life, and ended on the 27th of the second month of the 601st year, it lasted a year and ten days; but whether a solar year of 360 or 365 days, or a lunar year of 352, is doubtful [Keil and Delitzsch].
As times of special mercy are recorded by God; so they should be remembered by the Church.
At His appointed periods God measures out mercy unto his Church.
The patient waiting of the saints would God have recorded as well as his own mercy.
As mercies move Gods Church, so He moveth His saints to remove the vail, and to meet them.
Several periods of time God takes to perfect salvation to His Church.
Gen. 8:14-17. After their patient waiting God will certainly speak to His saints.
God speaks not doubtfully but certainly to His people in His returns.
God Himself must speak unto the satisfying of His saints in reference to their conduct.
Upon the change of Providence, God speaks change of duty to His saints.
It is at Gods pleasure to ordain or lay aside external means of mans salvation.
Gods promise is completely good unto His Church for saving.
Propagation, and increase of creatures on earth, is Gods blessing for His Church.
Gen. 8:18-19. Gods command and saints obedience must be found to bring about their comfort.
It becometh saints to make their outgoings and incomings only upon the Word of God.
Providence appoints and maintains order in the moving of His creatures; but especially in His Church.
Admirable is the work of Providence upon brutes to keep them in order.
The motion of the brute is at the Word of God to go in and out for safety.
ILLUSTRATIONS
BY THE
REV. WM. ADAMSON
Deluge! Gen. 8:13. This narrative has encountered countless and incisive criticism. The enemies of truth have gathered about it. They have marshalled all their forces. They have looked from a distance upon its palaces and towers. Sceptical scientists have said: We will undermine these chapters with adverse criticism on the possibility of such a deluge. We will prove that its foundations are a mere shellthat within is but a bed of quicksand. Thus have they toiled to shatter Noahs ark for centuries; but it still remains intact; and though it is not true that the material fabric remains undecayed on the summit of inaccessible Ararat, yet it is gloriously true that the moral structure stands fixed and sure on the towering summit of Divine Truth:
Grounded on Ararat, whose lofty peaks,
Soon from the tide emerged.
Freedom! Gen. 8:17. When the door of the ark was thrown open what a joyous bursting forth there was! The strong eagle spread his wings and soared upward from the place of his long captivity. The lordly tiger, who had crouched in tameness and quiet through those long months, bounded with a sudden roar into thickets among the hills. The beasts of the field and the birds of the air followedeach in its own way. They had entered by two and twoby seven and seven, in order and method; but doubtless they came out in a different mannerswifteagerdelighted.
Till all the plume-dark air,
And rude resounding shore were one wild cry.Anonymous.
How will the bodies of the saints bound from the ark of the grave! How will their spirits spring with inconceivable gladness, when the door is opened, and they are bidden to enter into the joy of their Lord!
Spiritual Truth! Gen. 8:13. Gather off your beech-trees in the budding spring days a little brown shell in which lies tender green leafage, and if you will carefully strip it, you will find packed in a compass that might almost go through the eye of a needle the whole of that which afterwards in the sunshine is to spread and grow to the yellow green foliage which delights and freshens the eye. In this mysterious incident of the Deluge are folded up all the future purposes of Jehovah in the destiny of the worldall the fruitful lessons of grace and goodness to be taught to the future generations of the church, and all the figurative symbolism bearing upon the many-sidedness of the great salvation of the Son of God:
Ours by His eternal purpose ere the universe had place;
Ours by everlasting covenant, ours by free and royal grace.
Liberty! Gen. 8:18. Up to this point, Noah was a prisoner of hopesecure, yet still a prisoner. When through grace the sinner has passed the judgment of the first creation, and has felt the tossings cease, and then has seen the hill-tops, and received the olive-leaf from the mouth of the gentle Dove, his freedom is near. Many a conscientious doubt as to rules or times or places is now resolved for us. Then Noah and his sons,
With living tribes innumerous, beasts and birds,
Forth from the ark came flocking.
Fuente: The Preacher’s Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
(13) The first day of the month.It will be plain to any one studying the following table that this was exactly one month after the day on which Noah, for the third time, sent out the dove (Gen. 8:12):
The flood commenced in the second month, called
Marchesvan, on day 17.
The waters prevail during 150 days = 5 months,
unto month 7, day 17.
Mountain-tops seen on month 10, day 1,
i.e., after
73 days.
Noah sends out raven at end of
40 days.
Dove thrice sent out, at intervals of
7 days
= 21 days.
134 days.
But from the seventeenth day of the seventh month to the first day of the first month of the following year, there are:
Of the seventh month
13 days.
Five months of 30 days each
= 150 days.
First day of new year
1 days.
164 days.
It was thus very slowly that the earth returned to its normal state. The intervals of seven days between the sending forth of the birds prove that the division of time into weeks was fully established, and also suggests that religious observances were connected with it.
The covering of the ark.The word is elsewhere used of the covering of skins for the Tabernacle (Exo. 26:14; Num. 4:25), and it has probably a similar meaning here. To have removed the solid framework of the roof would have been a very laborious task, and still more so to have broken up the roof itself. But as the asphalte employed for filling up the interstices between the beams in the hulk of the ark would have been difficult to manage for the roof, it was apparently protected from the rain by a covering, probably of skins sewn together.
No one can read the narrative without noticing that Noah is not only described as shut up within the ark, but as having very slight means of observing what was going on around. Had there been a deck, Noah would have known exactly the state of the flood, whereas, peeping only through the zohar, he seems to have been able to see but little, possibly because his sight was obstructed by the overhanging eaves of the roof. Thus the freshly-plucked olive-leaf was like a revelation to him. But when these skins were taken off, there were numerous apertures through which he could obtain an uninterrupted view, and he looked, and, behold, the face of the admh was dry.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
13. First month Noah waits another month before removing the covering of the ark, and nearly two months more before he went forth . The successive epochs are given with the minutest accuracy, removing the narrative entirely from the region of the poetical or mythical, as will
be seen by the following comparison of texts which form the Noachian calendar:
The whole time that Noah remained in the ark was, then, one year (probably a lunar year is meant) and ten days, making, as nearly as is possible to be expressed in days, a solar year of three hundred and sixty-five days. What kind of a year and month is here intended is a question yet discussed among chronologists; from comparing Gen 7:11, and Gen 8:3-4, we find that five months were reckoned as one hundred and fifty days, and this points to months of thirty days each, and a year of twelve such months, or three hundred and sixty, or by the addition of the five intercalary days, three hundred and sixty-five days, that is, the solar year . The Hebrew year at the time of the Exodus was evidently lunar; but the Egyptians, as appears from their monuments, were before this time acquainted with the year of three hundred and sixty-five days. The Jewish lunar year consisted of three hundred and fifty-four days, and if this be intended, Noah remained in the ark just a solar year.
Noah removed the covering of the ark . This word is elsewhere used only of the badger-skin and ram-skin coverings spread upon the holy vessels in the tabernacle, the ark of the testimony, etc . , and this usage would seem to imply that in the present case some such covering was spread on the top of the ark . We suppose that it was some kind of flexible, and probably semi-transparent, covering thrown over the windows which ran the whole length on both sides of the ridge, and which would shed the rain, while it could be easily removed in fair weather . See note on Gen 6:16.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Noah Leaves the Ark
v. 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.
v. 14. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. v. 15. And God spake unto Noah, saying, v. 16. Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons’ wives with thee. v. 17. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and of cattle and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. v. 18. And Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him; v. 19. every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Gen 8:13. In the six hundredth and first year i.e.. Of Noah’s life: in the first month and first day of the month of the year, the waters were dried up; so that, as the flood began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the former year, it lasted, upon the whole, a complete solar year.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
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.
A memorable new-year’s day, (as you will find by the calculation it was) and a memorable lesson it holds forth to gracious souls, who wait patiently the Lord’s promises. As Noah, after a long wintry season, now again beheld the face of the earth; so exercised believers, after long waiting, again behold the face of God with joy.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 8:13 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.
Ver. 13. The face of the ground. ] The surface of it was dry, but yet soft and muddy: he therefore waited two months longer. Let us also “be patient”. Jam 5:7
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Gen 8:13-19
13Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up. 14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth. 18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.
Gen 8:13 Noah removed the covering This seems to imply he removed part of the roof (BDB 492). Although later this same term will refer to the animal skin covering of the tabernacle, it is difficult to support that meaning here.
Gen 8:15 God spoke to Noah This entire context reveals the patience and obedience of Noah. God’s commands (i.e. Gen 8:15-19) parallel Gen 7:1-5.
Gen 8:16 Go out This is the first of several commands in Gen 8:16-17.
1. go out, Qal IMPERATIVE (BDB 422, KB 425), Gen 8:16
2. bring out, Hiphil IMPERATIVE (BDB 422, KB 425), Gen 8:17
3. breed abundantly, Qal PERFECT used in an IMPERATIVE sense (BDB 1056, KB 1655), Gen 8:17
4. be fruitful, Qal PERFECT used in an IMPERATIVE sense (cf. Gen 9:1; Gen 9:7 BDB 826, KB 953), Gen 8:17
5. multiply, Qal PERFECT used in an IMPERATIVE sense (cf. Gen 9:1; Gen 9:7 BDB 915, KB 1176), Gen 8:17
These commands are parallel to Gen 1:22; Gen 1:24. In a sense God is starting over. The waters of chaos destroyed all land life except what was on the ark. God’s original purpose is continued (cf. Gen 6:18).
Gen 8:17 These commands of God (also Gen 9:1) parallel Gen 1:22; Gen 1:24. See Contextual Insights at the beginning of this chapter.
Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley
six hundredth and first year: i.e. of Noah’s life.
the first month, the first day. Six such important dates in Bible: (1) Here, the drying up of the waters (Gen 8:13); (2) The setting up of Tabernacle by Moses (Exo 40:2); (3) The sanctification of cleansed-up Temple by Hezekiah (2Ch 29:17); (4) The going up of Ezra (Gen 7:9); (5) The giving up of strange wives (Ezr 10:17); (6) The offering up of a bullock in Ezekiel’s future Temple (Eze 45:18).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
first month
i.e. April.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
am 1657, bc 2347
six: Gen 7:11
Reciprocal: Gen 7:6 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 8:13-14. Noah removed the covering of the ark Not the whole covering, but so much as would suffice to give him a prospect of the earth about it: and behold the face of the ground was dry; and in the 27th day of the second month was a fit habitation for Noah.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the {g} 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.
(g) Called in Hebrew Abib, part of March and part of April.