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In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
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Verse 13. Year of Noe’s age, who, we may suppose, was born on the first day of the year. So that his 601st year corresponds with the 1657th of the world, B.Calmet. 2343, on which day the deluge ended. Still Noe waited for God’s order to leave the ark till the 27th of the ensuing month, when the earth was more perfectly dried. Bible.—Covering. Some think that the window was at the top, like a sky-light. Calmet.
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