The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.
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.
and the waters receded steadily from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month [five months after the rain began], the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in Turkey].
At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;