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How long was the ark afloat?
The ark grounds before mountain tops are reported visible, but grounding and visibility are different events and do not supply incompatible floating durations.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
An ark can rest on submerged ground before mountain tops become visible, so the dates describe compatible events.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
The ark rests on Ararat in the seventh month
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8:4
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Genesis 8
Mountain tops become visible in the tenth month
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Genesis 8:5
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Genesis 8