In Genesis, on which day of Noah's flood did the Ark come to rest on the mountains of Ararat?

In Genesis, Noah’s Ark came to rest on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

Genesis 8:4 gives this precise date for the ark’s resting on the mountains of Ararat. The statement follows the account of the floodwaters prevailing over the Earth and precedes the later stages in which the mountaintops become visible and Noah tests the surface with birds.

The date is easy to mix up with other numbers in the narrative. Genesis says the flood began on the seventeenth day of the second month, while rain fell for forty days and forty nights. It also records a period of 150 days during which the waters prevailed. These references describe separate points or durations in the chronology.

The text uses month numbers rather than modern month names, and biblical calendars are interpreted in different ways by scholars. The most direct answer remains the seventeenth day of the seventh month, exactly as Genesis states.