in the second moneth] The moneth Jiar, that is, the moneth which answereth to part of Aprill, and part of May. seven and twentieth day] Hence we may make the compleat account of the continuance of the flood; which, if the moneths and dayes were reckoned according to the course of the Sunne, make up a whole Solar yeare and tenne dayes: whereof the raine continued fourty dayes; the flood in its full height one hundred and fifty dayes; in its diminution or decrease one hundred twenty nine dayes; in the end whereof the earth was bare all over, but muddy, so that Noah continued after that fifty sixe dayes; which cast up into a totall summe, make up the number of three hundred seventy five dayes; that is, ten dayes above, the Solar yeare consisting of three hundred sixtie five dayes. For this account compare, Genesis 7. vers. 11. 13. with the first and fourth of that Chapter, and the first of this. But it is to be noted, that according to an account usuall among the Hebrews, sixe of the moneths of the yeare had thirty dayes, and the other sixe had twenty nine dayes apiece, which put into one sumine make three hundred fifty foure dayes, to which adding the eleven dayes (viz. from the seventeenth till the twenty seventh of the second moneth inclusively) the whole will be a Solar yeare, after our ordinary reckoning, to wit, three hundred sixty five dayes.