Flood Story

Genesis 7:11 - Flood started on the 17th day of the 2nd month in the 600th year of Noah’s life.

Genesis 7:17 - For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth.

Genesis 7:24 - The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:1 - At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down.

Question 1: To which level had the water gone down, since no mountain is visible?

Question 2: What is the difference between what happened in verses 17 and 24, since there was no visible mountain still after the 150 days?

Genesis 8:4 - On the 17th day of the 7th month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Exactly 150 days have passed. Although no mountain is yet visible, the ark rested on the mountain(s?) of Ararat.

Genesis 8:5 - The waters continued to recede until the 10th month. On the 1st day of the 10th month the tops of the mountains became visible. The mountains were not visible until 1st of the 10th month. This is 224 clear days from the first day of the flood, and 74 days after the ark has landed on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:6 - After 40 days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. (40 days from when?) If it is from the day mountain tops appeared, then the raven flied back and forth for 90 days. If it is from the day the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, then it flied back and forth for 164 days.

Genesis 8:8 - Noah sent the dove, but the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth so it returned to Noah in the ark. Where are the mountains that appeared 90 or 164 days ago?

Genesis 8:10 - 7 days later he sent the dove again, and the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf. After another 7 days he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. Thus, in 7 days time olive grew and made leaf, and 7 days later dove could comfortably had place to land.

Genesis 8:13 - By the 1st day of the 1st month of Noah’s 601st year, the water had dried up from the earth. This is 90 days from the time mountain tops appeared, 164 days from the day the ark landed on the mountains of Ararat, and 314 days from the start of the flood.

Genesis 8:13-14 - Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. Although Noah saw that the surface of the ground was dry, he could not come out from the ark. Although olive grew and made leave in 7 days, and in another 7 days the dove could find place to comfortably land, It took the earth another 55 days from the time Noah saw that the surface of the ground was dry before the earth became completely dry.

Genesis 8:20 - The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma. God smelled pleasing aroma? This comment pass my power.