and the waters receded steadily from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
The waters covered [all of] the earth for a hundred and fifty days (five months).
The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.