⁴ And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ And the waters continued to recede^[a] to the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. ⁶ And it happened that at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.