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.