Genesis 8:14

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.”

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BSBPD

“By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 8:14 — 2 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
  2. Genesis 7:13On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

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