Ararat
A place in the Bible
The mountains where Noah’s ark came to rest when the waters of the flood went down.
What happened here
- Noah’s ark: on the twenty-seventh day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on these mountains.
- In the Douay-Rheims: it says “the mountains of Armenia,” the region where Ararat was.
Today
Ararat was the ancient name of a region of Armenia. No one knows on which exact mountain the ark came to rest.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 8:4
What the Bible says
Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Genesis 8:4; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Armenia”; Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), “Ararat”