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3-4 The water that covered the earth began to go down. After 150 days the water had gone down so much that the boat touched land again. It came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.[a] This was on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. The water continued to go down. By the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains could be seen.

Forty days later Noah opened the window he had made in the boat.

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  1. 8:3-4 Ararat The ancient land of Urartu, an area in Eastern Turkey.

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