Genesis 8 · Verse 14

Genesis 8:14

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

Genesis 8:14, King James Version

Genesis 8:14 in other translations

BSB	By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
WEB	In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
ASV	And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
YLT	And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.
DARBY	And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
BBE	And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
Webster	And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

What does Genesis 8:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 8:13-14

13-14. Noah removed the covering of the ark--probably only as much of it as would afford him a prospect of the earth around. Yet for about two months he never stirred from his appointed abode till he had received the express permission of God. We should watch the leading of Providence to direct us in every step of the journey of life.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day - From this it appears that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year, or three hundred and sixty-five days; for he entered the ark the 17th day of the second month, in the six hundredth year of his life, Gen 7:11, Gen 7:13, and continued in it till the 27th day of the second month, in the six hundredth and first year of his life, as we see above. The months of the ancient Hebrews were lunar; the first six consisted of thirty days each, the latter six of twenty-nine; the whole twelve months making three hundred and fifty-four days: add to this eleven days, (for though he entered the ark the preceding year on the seventeenth day of the second month, he did not come out till the twenty-seventh of the same month in the following year), which make exactly three hundred and sixty-five days, the period of a complete solar revolution; the odd hours and minutes, as being fractions of time, noncomputed, though very likely all included in the account. This year, according to the Hebrew computation, was the one thousand six hundred and fifty-seventh year from the creation; but according to the reckoning of the Septuagint it was the two thousand two hundred and forty-second, and according to Dr. Hales, the two thousand two hundred and fifty-sixth. See on Gen 11:12 (note).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 8:13-19

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…

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Genesis 8:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּבַחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙u.va.Cho.deshand in the monthH2320

הַשֵּׁנִ֔יha.she.Ni<the> secondH8145

בְּשִׁבְעָ֧הbe.shiv.'Ahon [the] sevenH7651

וְעֶשְׂרִ֛יםve.'es.Rimand twentyH6242

י֖וֹםYomdayH3117

לַחֹ֑דֶשׁla.Cho.deshof the monthH2320

יָבְשָׁ֖הya.ve.Shah<it> was dryH3001

הָאָֽרֶץ\׃\ \סha.'A.retzthe earthH776

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Cross references for Genesis 8:14

Genesis 7:13-14
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

7:11,13,14From this, it appears, that Noah was in the ark a complete solar year, or 365 days; for he entered it on the 17th day of the 2nd month, in the 600th year of his life, and continued in it till the 27th day of the 2nd month, in the 601st year of his life, as we see above.

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Context

Genesis 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.
Genesis 8:14
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Genesis 8:15
And God spake unto Noah, saying,

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Genesis 8:14 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Y en el mes segundo, á los veintisiete días del mes, se secó la tierra.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Et au second mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, la terre fut sèche.
German Elberfelder 1871	Und im zweiten Monat, am 27. Tage des Monats, war die Erde trocken.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Mense secundo, septimo et vigesimo die mensis arefacta est terra.