Genesis 8:3
Good News Translation
and the water gradually went down for 150 days.

New Revised Standard Version
and the waters gradually receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had abated;

Contemporary English Version
For 150 days the water slowly went down.

New American Bible
Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

continually.

Genesis 7:11,24 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened: . . .

Context
The Ark Rests on Ararat
2The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained. 3And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.4And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:5
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.

Genesis 8:2
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