Lux Domini
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Key themes

HopeWisdomPeaceGraceCreation

Glossary

Ark Object

Noah’s ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high.

Ararat Place

Sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided ( Gen. 8:4 ). The “mountains” mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South Armenia. Modern identification: Urartu.