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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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsand the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)