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The Flood Subsides

And God remembered Noah and all the wild animals, and all the domesticated animals that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to blow[a] over the earth, and the waters subsided. And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens[b] were closed, and the rain from the heavens[c] was restrained. And the waters receded from the earth gradually,[d] and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 8:1 Or “go”
  2. Genesis 8:2 Or “the sky”
  3. Genesis 8:2 Or “the sky”
  4. Genesis 8:3 Literally “going and returning”