and the water receded from the earth, going forth and returning, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep split open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
And the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.
Now the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.