The Bible Narrative on the
Location of Noah's Ark
"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
upon the mountains of Ararat." (Gen 8:4 KJV)
"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." (Gen 8:5 KJV)
The Bible narrative states that the ark "rested."
Verse 5 tells us that for two and a half months "the waters decreased continually" before the
tops of the mountains were seen. It is obvious the Ark had not landed two and half months earlier.
The "mountains of Ararat" is plural and therefore means mountainous
region. The word translated for Ararat is translated as Armenia later in the book of Isaiah and is usually so referenced.
"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."
(Gen 8:13 KJV)
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried."
(Gen 8:14 KJV)
After the flood waters had receded until "the face of the ground"
could be seen, it was another two months before "the earth dried" enough for Noah and the animals to disembark from the Ark.
The actual landing site, higher up but still within the cresent shaped mountain range allowed the animals to depart
easily enough with a gentle sloping hillside all the way to the plains.*
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