2. The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3. The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
4. The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
5. The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
6. At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,
7. and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8. He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,