Holy Scripture
Genesis 8:4
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“The springs of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were open forty days and forty nights and "the ark was afloat for one hundred fifty days." But after one hundred fifty days the waters began to subside and the ark came to rest on Mt. Qardu. In the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen. In the six hundred…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.
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2And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the floodgates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.
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.
— Genesis 8:4 —
5And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.
6And it came to pass after forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.