Genesis 8:13 - Exposition

And it came to pass (literally, it was) in the six hundredth and first year (of Noah's life; so LXX .), in the first month ,— του ͂ πρω ì του μηνο Ì ς , ( LXX .); the word for month (expressed in Genesis 8:4 , Genesis 8:14 ) being omitted in the Hebrew text for brevity,— the first day of the month, the waters were dried up —the root signifies to burn up or become dry in consequence of heat (Furst); "it merely denotes the absence of water" (Gesenius)— from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark— mikseh, from kasah , to cover; used of the covering of the ark ( Exodus 26:14 ) and of the holy vessels ( Numbers 4:8 , Numbers 4:12 ), and hence supposed to be made of skins (Knobel, Bush); but "the deck of an ark on which the rain-storms spent their force must surely have been of as great stability as the ark itself (Lange)— and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.