² 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. ³ The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days^(C) the water had gone down, ⁴ and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month^(D) the ark came to rest on the mountains^(E) of Ararat.^(F)