Genesis 8:4

"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat."

For the duration of the Flood, see Genesis 8:14.

"Upon the mountains of Ararat ..." This designates, not a particular peak, but a district, described by Skinner thus: "It is the province of Armenia lying northeast of Lake Van, including the fertile plain watered by the Araxes, on the right (southwest) side of which Mount Massis rises."[6] The area is that which lies along the alluvial plain of the Aras (Araxes) river near the point were the three borders of the Soviet Union, Iran, and Turkey come together. Out of this region there rise two peaks, the Greater and the Lesser Ararat, the Greater rising to an elevation of 16,945 feet and the Lesser to a height of 12,877 feet above sea level. The plain itself is about 3,000 feet in altitude. The peaks are in Turkish terrritory[7]. Either of these peaks, or any of the foothills could have been the place where the ark rested. It is amazing that some scholars find "difficulty" with how the animals could have come down through snows from a high peak, but such difficulties do not come from anything in the Bible but from the interpretations that men have imported into it. Josephus wrote that, "The ark rested on the top of a certain mountain in Armenia"[8], and that is just about all that the text states. It is of interest that as late as the times of Josephus, the remains of the ark were said to be still visible: "Its remains are shown by the inhabitants there to this day."[9]