Genesis 8:3
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And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

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.

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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: . . .

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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.…
Lexicon
The waters
הַמַּ֛יִם (ham·ma·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

receded
וַיָּשֻׁ֧בוּ (way·yā·šu·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

steadily
הָל֣וֹךְ (hā·lō·wḵ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

from
מֵעַ֥ל (mê·‘al)
Preposition-m
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the earth,
הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

and after
מִקְצֵ֕ה (miq·ṣêh)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7097: End, extremity

150
וּמְאַ֖ת (ū·mə·’aṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3967: A hundred

days
יֽוֹם׃ (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

the waters
הַמַּ֔יִם (ham·ma·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

had gone down.
וַיַּחְסְר֣וּ (way·yaḥ·sə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2637: To lack, need, be lacking, decrease


Additional Translations
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

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

And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.

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

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

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

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.
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