and the water receded steadily from the earth, 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 that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
The water prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
And the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.