Genesis 8:4 (BSB)

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

From Genesis 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Genesis 8:4

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 8:4-5: Here we have the effects and evidences of the ebbing of the waters. 1. The ark rested. This was some satisfaction to Noah, to feel the house he was in upon firm ground, and no longer movable. It rested upon a mountain, whither it was directed, not by Noah's prudence (he did not steer it), but by the wise and gracious providence of God, that it might rest the sooner.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 8:4: And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,.... That is, five months after the flood began, and when the waters began to decrease; for this is not the seventh month of the flood, but of the year, which being reckoned from Tisri, or the autumnal equinox, must be the month Nisan, which answers to part of our March...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Genesis 8:4: seventh month--of the year--not of the flood--which lasted only five months. rested--evidently indicating a calm and gentle motion. upon the mountains of Ararat--or Armenia, as the word is rendered (Kg2 19:37; Isa 37:38). The mountain which tradition points to as the one on which the ark rested is now called Ara Dagh, the "finger mountain." Its summit consists of two peaks, the higher of which...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Genesis 8:4: And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. (c) Part of September and part of October.