¹² The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.

¹⁷ For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.

¹⁸ As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.

²⁴ And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.

¹³ Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began,^[a] the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.