Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
1 God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going 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 outlets of the water beneath the earth and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain stopped,
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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 and the water gradually went down for 150 days.
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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 boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.
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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 going down, and 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 forty days Noah opened a window
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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