5The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.


In Context

2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

Genesis 8:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:5And 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:5And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:5And 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:5And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:5And 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 Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:5And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:5The 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:5and 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:5And 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.