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Chronology of the Flood (150 days the waters prevailed).
I am just adding this "chronology of the flood" which shows that the waters prevailed up to 15 cubits above the tops of the mountains for 150 days - until the first day of the 10th month.
Some people count this wrongly and take the 150 days to mean from when Noah entered the ark until its hull rested on the mountains of Ararat. Then they say this was 5 months, so (they presume) back then the calendar must have had 30 days to the month. But there is no proof of that.
What really happened was that the tops of the mountains were seen again on the 1st day of the 10th month, and they were covered since the 27th day of the 4th month.
(ps. a "lunar month" has nothing to do with the "months" on a purely solar calendar like the Gregorian one we use today. Neither has the earth's orbit round the sun anything to do with the moon months or even the 365.25 days the earth turns on its axis in one orbit. The 360 degree circle the earth covers in its yearly orbit can be conveniently divided into 12 divisions each of 30 degrees, often referred to as "houses" in the zodiac. Now there ARE 12 of these in a year, each with 30 degrees).
CHRONOLOGY OF THE FLOOD
Does the account of the flood in Noah's time say that 5 months of the Biblical calendar are the same as 150 days?
No it doesn't, but some have tried to read it this way.
What do Genesis chapters 7 and 8 actually say:
Yahweh told Noah to go into the ark:
10th day of 2nd month in 600th year of Noah's life:
Genesis 7:1* ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2* Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
17th day of 2nd month
The flood began
Gen 7:11* ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
It rained for 40 days and 40 nights
Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The rain ceased on the 27th day of the 3rd month.
Gen 7:17 ¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; …
After the rain stopped the waters still increased
Gen 7:17 …and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
The tops of the mountains disappeared on the 27th day of the 4th month
Gen 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
The waters PREVAILED fifteen cubits above the height of the mountains for ONE HUNDRED AND 50 DAYS
Gen 7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Gen 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
On the 17th day of the 7th month, the hull of the ark touched the mountains of Ararat and it stayed still. But the mountains were still covered by water.
Gen 8:4* ¶ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat
On the first day of the 10th month, the tops of the mountains were seen – the first time since the 27th day of the 4th month (150 days ago).
Gen 8:5* 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.
On the 11th of the 11th month Noah sent out a raven and a dove:
Gen 8:6 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
The dove returned, and on the 18th day of the 11th month, Noah sent her out again:
Gen 8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
11* And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
On the 25th day of the 11th month, Noah sent out the dove for the last time:
Gen 8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
In the first month the waters were dried off the earth and Noah left the ark on the
27th day of the 2nd month, just over a year from when he entered the ark.
Gen 8:13* ¶ 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.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16* Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
I am just adding this "chronology of the flood" which shows that the waters prevailed up to 15 cubits above the tops of the mountains for 150 days - until the first day of the 10th month.
Some people count this wrongly and take the 150 days to mean from when Noah entered the ark until its hull rested on the mountains of Ararat. Then they say this was 5 months, so (they presume) back then the calendar must have had 30 days to the month. But there is no proof of that.
What really happened was that the tops of the mountains were seen again on the 1st day of the 10th month, and they were covered since the 27th day of the 4th month.
(ps. a "lunar month" has nothing to do with the "months" on a purely solar calendar like the Gregorian one we use today. Neither has the earth's orbit round the sun anything to do with the moon months or even the 365.25 days the earth turns on its axis in one orbit. The 360 degree circle the earth covers in its yearly orbit can be conveniently divided into 12 divisions each of 30 degrees, often referred to as "houses" in the zodiac. Now there ARE 12 of these in a year, each with 30 degrees).
CHRONOLOGY OF THE FLOOD
Does the account of the flood in Noah's time say that 5 months of the Biblical calendar are the same as 150 days?
No it doesn't, but some have tried to read it this way.
What do Genesis chapters 7 and 8 actually say:
Yahweh told Noah to go into the ark:
10th day of 2nd month in 600th year of Noah's life:
Genesis 7:1* ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2* Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
17th day of 2nd month
The flood began
Gen 7:11* ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
It rained for 40 days and 40 nights
Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The rain ceased on the 27th day of the 3rd month.
Gen 7:17 ¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; …
After the rain stopped the waters still increased
Gen 7:17 …and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
The tops of the mountains disappeared on the 27th day of the 4th month
Gen 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
The waters PREVAILED fifteen cubits above the height of the mountains for ONE HUNDRED AND 50 DAYS
Gen 7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Gen 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
On the 17th day of the 7th month, the hull of the ark touched the mountains of Ararat and it stayed still. But the mountains were still covered by water.
Gen 8:4* ¶ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat
On the first day of the 10th month, the tops of the mountains were seen – the first time since the 27th day of the 4th month (150 days ago).
Gen 8:5* 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.
On the 11th of the 11th month Noah sent out a raven and a dove:
Gen 8:6 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
The dove returned, and on the 18th day of the 11th month, Noah sent her out again:
Gen 8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
11* And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
On the 25th day of the 11th month, Noah sent out the dove for the last time:
Gen 8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
In the first month the waters were dried off the earth and Noah left the ark on the
27th day of the 2nd month, just over a year from when he entered the ark.
Gen 8:13* ¶ 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.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16* Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.