2 The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.
3 Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished
4 that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch of the ark that he had made,
7 and he released a raven. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth.
8 Then he released a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.