Genesis 8:3

American Standard Version

and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

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Genesis 8:3 in other translations

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

Genesis 8:3 · World English Bible

Genesis 8:3 in context

  1. 1And 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. 2the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
  3. 3and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
  4. 4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
  5. 5And 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.