Holy Scripture
Genesis 8:2
A church father on this verse
“See how God did everything out of his esteem for the human being. As in the case of the destruction of human beings in the flood he destroyed also along with them the whole range of brute beasts, so in this case too, when he intends to show his characteristic love for the good man out of his regard for him, he extends…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the floodgates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.
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1And God remembered Noah, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.
— Genesis 8:2 —
3And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after a hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
4And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.