According to Genesis 8:14, in which month was the earth completely dry after the Flood?

According to Genesis 8:14, the earth was completely dry in the second month. The verse marks the end of the Flood sequence, after Noah had already observed receding waters and tested the land with birds.

Genesis uses several chronological markers during the event. The Ark rests in the seventh month, mountain tops appear in the tenth month, and Noah removes the covering of the Ark in the first month. Complete dryness is recorded later, in the second month.

These references are easy to confuse because they describe different stages of the same process. The tenth-month reference concerns visible mountains, while the first-month reference concerns Noah seeing that the surface had dried. Neither means that the entire earth was already completely dry.

The passage then records God’s instruction for Noah, his family, and the animals to leave the Ark. The second month therefore marks the final transition from confinement to renewed life on land.