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Genesis 8:3
And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8:3 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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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 Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:
2 The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
3 And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:
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