2 The deep`s fountains and the sky`s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
4 The ark 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 seen.
6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,