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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 8, Verse 5

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And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
New English Translation
The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
World English Bible
The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were 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.
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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;
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And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
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And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
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And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
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And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
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And God spake unto Noah, saying,