OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 3

Genesis 8:3

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The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

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Genesis 8:3 in context

Genesis 8:1–6

1

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

2

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3
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The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

4

The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

5

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 visible.

6

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

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