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The underground springs stopped flowing. And the clouds in the sky stopped pouring down rain. 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.

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

Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens(A) had been closed, and the rain(B) had stopped falling from the sky. The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days(C) the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month(D) the ark came to rest on the mountains(E) of Ararat.(F)

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