1. God remembered Noah and all the animals, wild and tame, that were with him in the ark. So God made a wind sweep over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
2. The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.
3. Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished
4. that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.