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The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed. Then the flood waters steadily receded,[a] diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days. The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat[b] on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

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  1. Genesis 8:3 Lit. receded from the dry land
  2. Genesis 8:4 I.e. ancient Urartu