In Genesis, what was the first month in which Noah’s ark came to rest?

In Genesis, Noah’s ark came to rest in the seventh month.

Genesis 8:4 says that the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. The wording is plural—“mountains of Ararat”—rather than the name of one explicitly identified peak. Afterward, the waters continued to recede, and the tops of the mountains became visible in the tenth month.

This chronology helps distinguish two separate events: the ark’s grounding in the seventh month and the later visibility of mountain tops in the tenth. Genesis then describes Noah’s bird tests and his eventual departure from the ark.

Many modern retellings say simply that the ark landed on Mount Ararat. That is a traditional identification, but the biblical wording is less specific. The text does not name a single mountain called Ararat, and it does not provide a modern geographical coordinate. The date is therefore a more precise answer than a particular peak.