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The Flood to Abram's call

The ark rests on the mountains of Ararat

2348 BCUssher date

Genesis 8:1–19

Five months after the Flood began, the ark grounded in the mountains of Ararat; months later the land dried out.

The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

Genesis 8:4 (World English Bible)
Great Sea(Mediterranean)Persian GulfEuphratesTigrisMountains of Araratregion of ancient UrartuShinarlater migrationto Shinar (Gen 11:2)Coastlines simplified
Where the ark landed, and the later move to Shinar.

God “remembered Noah” and sent a wind to push back the waters. The ark came to rest in the seventh month. Noah waited, sending out a raven and then a dove. When the dove came back with a fresh olive leaf, he knew the land was recovering.

Places

Ararat

Dating notes

'The mountains of Ararat' names a region (ancient Urartu, in today's eastern Turkey and surrounding lands), not necessarily the single peak now called Mount Ararat.

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