In Genesis, on which day of the first month did Noah remove the Ark's covering?

In Genesis, Noah removed the Ark’s covering on the first day of the first month of his 601st year.

Genesis 8:13 says that, after the waters had dried from the earth, Noah removed the covering and saw that the surface was dry. The verse places this event on the first day of the first month. It is a later stage of the story than the ark’s resting on the mountains and the sending of the raven and dove.

The narrative uses several calendar dates. The Flood begins on the seventeenth day of the second month of Noah’s 600th year, the ark rests in the seventh month, and the earth is dry by the first month of his 601st year. These markers create a sequence rather than one single flood date.

The answer is therefore “the first day,” not the seventh or seventeenth. Those other numbers occur elsewhere in Genesis’s chronology and can cause confusion.