2 The springs of the deep sea and the skies closed up. The skies held back the rain.
3 The waters receded gradually from the earth. After one hundred fifty days, the waters decreased;
4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day, the ark came to rest on the Ararat mountains.
5 The waters decreased gradually until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the mountain peaks appeared.
6 After forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
7 He sent out a raven, and it flew back and forth until the waters over the entire earth had dried up.
8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters on all of the fertile land had subsided,