2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 and the waters turned back and forth upon the earth, and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 And it came to pass 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, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground,