And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Ver. 13. The face of the ground.] The surface of it was dry, but yet soft and muddy: he therefore waited two months longer. Let us also "be patient". Jam 5:7