Holy Scripture
Genesis 8:5
A church father on this verse
“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
5And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.
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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.
— Genesis 8:5 —
6And it came to pass after forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
7And he sent forth a raven; and it went forth and returned not until the water was dried from off the earth.