2 The outlets of the water beneath the earth and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain stopped,
3 and the water gradually went down for 150 days.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.
5 The water kept going down, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 After forty days Noah opened a window
7 and sent out a raven. It did not come back, but kept flying around until the water was completely gone.
8 Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had gone down,