In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month: nearly all translations give the time as in Revised Standard Version and Good News Translation. Note that Good News Translation always gives the day before the month as a more natural English style. The flood that began in the seventeenth day of the second month in Noah’s six hundredth year now comes completely to an end in the twenty-seventh day of the second month of the six hundredth and first year of his life, giving a total of one year and ten days.

Earth was dry: dry here is Hebrew ybsh, which refers to a condition of complete dryness. Biblia Dios Habla Hoy says “well dried,” Good News Translation “completely dry.”

Quoted with permission from Reyburn, William D. and Fry, Euan McG. A Handbook on Genesis. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1997. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .