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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 7, Verse 24

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And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.
King James Version
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
American Standard Version
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
New English Translation
The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.
World English Bible
The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.
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And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
2
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
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And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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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.
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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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And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
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But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
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And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;