The first part (8:1–5) tells how God made the flood waters go down. The narrator not only deals with the time features of the flood in detail, but he also names the place where the boat came to rest. The second part (8:6–12) begins with “at the end of forty days” and reports what Noah did to determine how the waters were drying up. Within this episode two periods of seven days are mentioned. The third part (8:13–19) is again introduced by an expression of time; this time it is in relation to Noah’s