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and the waters receded steadily from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month [five months after the rain began], the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in [a]Turkey]. The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

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  1. Genesis 8:4 Formerly in Armenia, now in Turkey—near the present-day Turkish-Armenian border.

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