1. God did not forget about Noah and the animals with him in the boat. So God made a wind blow, and the water started going down.
2. God stopped up the places where the water had been gushing out from under the earth. He also closed up the sky, and the rain stopped.
3. For one hundred and fifty days the water slowly went down.
4. Then on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the year, the boat came to rest somewhere in the Ararat mountains.