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.

⁵ The water continued to ·go down [recede] so that by the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains could be seen.