On what day of the month did Noah's Ark come to rest on the mountains of Ararat?

Noah’s Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the 17th day of the month. Genesis 8:4 gives both the month and the day, stating that the ark rested in the seventh month, on its seventeenth day.

This date belongs to the flood chronology that follows the forty days of rain and the continued rise and recession of the waters. The narrative distinguishes the ark’s resting from the later moment when Noah could leave. Noah still waited through further stages of drying, testing the land with birds before receiving the command to disembark.

Readers sometimes remember the number seven because the verse says “seventh month,” but the day is specifically the seventeenth. The date is also not the same as the day Noah entered the ark or the day the rain began; Genesis assigns those events different chronological markers.

The passage does not identify the month using a modern calendar name. Its precise statement is “the seventeenth day of the seventh month,” making 17 the requested day number.