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In the seventh month, from the beginning, not of the flood, but of the year, as appears by comparing Gen_7:11, and Gen_8:13-14,
the ark rested upon one of the mountains of Ararat; by a frequent enallage of the number, as Jud_12:7 Mat_21:5. And by Ararat is here commonly and rightly understood Armenia, as appears both by comparing Isa_37:38 Jer_51:27, and by the testimony of ancient writers, produced by Josephus and others to this purpose; and by the great height of those mountains, and by its nearness to the place where the first men lived; this great vessel not being fitted for sailing to remote places, but only for the receipt and preservation of men and other creatures in it.