³ The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days^(A) the water had gone down, ⁴ and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month^(B) the ark came to rest on the mountains^(C) of Ararat.^{(D) 5} The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.