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On the seventeenth day of the seventh month [five months after the rain began], the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in [a]Turkey]. The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;

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  1. Genesis 8:4 Formerly in Armenia, now in Turkey—near the present-day Turkish-Armenian border.

and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month(A) the ark came to rest on the mountains(B) of Ararat.(C) 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.

After forty days(D) Noah opened a window he had made in the ark

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