The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
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 fountains of the great abyss burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished
that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch of the ark that he had made,