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Genesis 8:3
and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
Genesis 8:3 · American Standard Version
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Genesis 8:3 in other translations
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
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In context
1 And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
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