The Flood Ends

8 But God remembered Noah and all the ·wild [beasts] and ·tame animals [cattle] with him in the ·boat [ark]. He made a wind ·blow [pass] over the earth, and the water ·went down [subsided]. ² The ·underground springs [^Lfountains/springs of the deep] stopped flowing, and the ·clouds [floodgates; ^Lwindows] in the ·sky [heavens] ·stopped pouring down rain [^Lwere closed and the rain from the sky/heavens were restrained]. The water that covered the earth began to ·go down [recede]. After one hundred fifty days ·it [^Lthe waters] had ·gone down [abated] so much that the ·boat [ark] touched land again. It came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat [^Cin ancient Urartu, present-day eastern Turkey] on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.