2. The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
3. The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
4. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.
5. The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
6. At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7. and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
8. Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.