According to Genesis, what was the first month in which Noah saw the ground become dry?

According to Genesis, Noah saw the ground become dry in the first month after the flood chronology began.

Genesis 8:13 says that in the first month, on the first day, Noah removed the covering of the Ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. The passage then gives another date: by the 27th day of the second month, the earth was completely dry and God told Noah to leave the Ark.

This distinction matters because “dry ground” and “the earth was completely dry” are separate statements in the narrative. The first-month date is therefore not the final departure date. Biblical calendar terminology can also vary in modern translations and in how readers map the ancient calendar onto modern months, but the sequence in Genesis is explicit.