1. שׁכך shākak: “stoop, assuage.”

2. חסר chāsar: “want, fail, be abated.”

3. אר…

The first day of the month. — It will be plain to anyone studying the following table that this was exactly one month after the da…

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 …

And it came to pass, in the six hundred and first year
Of Noah's life, and so the Septuagint adds, in the first month,

God considers our benefit rather than our desires; He knows what is good for us better than we know for ourselves, and how long it is fitting for o…