Bible verse
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
Genesis 8:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 8.
1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
KJV
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
ASV
and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
ERV
and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of an hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
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