Genesis 8:13 · Clearspring

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WEBBE

In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

BSB

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

KJV

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.

ASV

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: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried.

BBE

And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

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וַיְהִי vay·hi and it was H1961 בְּאַחַת be·'a·chat in one H259 וְשֵׁשׁ־ ve·shesh- and six H8337 מֵאוֹת me·'ot hundred(s) H3967 שָׁנָה sha·nah year H8141 בָּרִאשׁוֹן ba·ri·shon in the first [month] H7223 בְּאֶחָד be·'e·chad on [day] one H259 לַחֹדֶשׁ la·cho·desh of the month H2320 חָרְבוּ cha·re·vu they were dried up H2717 הַמַּיִם ha·ma·yim the waters H4325 מֵעַל me·'al from on H5921 הָאָרֶץ ha·'a·retz the earth H776 וַיָּסַר vai·ya·sar and he removed H5493 נֹחַ no·ach Noah H5146 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 מִכְסֵה mikh·seh [the] covering of H4372 הַתֵּבָה ha·te·vah the ark H8392 וַיַּרְא vai·yar' and he saw H7200 וְהִנֵּה ve·hi·neh and there H2009 חָרְבוּ cha·re·vu they were dried up H2717 פְּנֵי pe·nei [the] surface of H6440 הָאֲדָמָה ha·'a·da·mah the ground H127

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 13–19

God consults our benefit, rather than our desires; 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, is shut, are ready to thrust off the covering, and to climb up some other way; but God's time of showing mercy is the best time. As Noah had a command to go into the ark, so, how tedious soever his confinement there was, he would wait for a command to go out of it again. We must in all our ways acknowledge God, and set him before us in all our removals. Those only go under God's protection, who follow God's direction, and submit to him.

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