The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,
And the waters surged on the earth 150 days.
The waters continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.