GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
1 God remembered Noah and all the wild and domestic animals with him in the ship. So God made a wind blow over the earth, and the water started to go down.
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But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
2 The deep springs and the sky had been shut, and the rain had stopped pouring.
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Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
3 The water began to recede from the land. At the end of 150 days the water had decreased.
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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ship came to rest in the mountains of Ararat.
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and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 The water kept decreasing until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
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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.
6 After 40 more days Noah opened the window he had made in the ship
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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