>>17577697And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
(Genesis 8:4)
Sometimes failure to translate can be as misleading as mistranslation. Most people understand this to mean Mount Ararat in Armenia, some 1,600 miles west of the Tarim Basin. This is not what the Bible says. First of all, note it reads “mountains of Ararat”, mountains being in the plural, while Mount Ararat in Armenia is only a single peak. However, Mount Ararat in Armenia was known until comparatively recent times as Mount Massis. Nobody had ever heard of it being called Mount Ararat in Bible times.
Julius Africanus tells us in 221 AD, "And when the water abated, the ark settled on the mountains of Ararat, which we know to be in Parthia (Southern Turkmenistan)"
Furthermore, the Hebrew word ararat means only ‘the tops of the hills’. Therefore, correctly translated, Genesis 8:4 only says the ark came to rest upon the top of the high hills, some of the lower mountains which were within the valley.
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