ContradictionsReading order 240Bible context 2 min read
When did the earth dry after the flood?
Two nearby verses date the earth's drying to different points almost two months apart.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Dryness is announced on two dates nearly two months apart, though the observed surface and fully dried earth can describe different stages.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
The ground is dry on the first month's first day
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 8:13
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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The earth is dried on the second month's twenty seventh day
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Genesis 8:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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