Noah built a boat 133 metres long, 22 metres wide, and 14 metres high. It had a skylight in the gently shelving roof.
Noah had seven days notice to load the boat with all the animals and birds that he had collected. (Plus supplies for the voyage!)
Seven days later, on the 17th day of the second month, oceanic disturbances and torrential rain combined to flood Noah's world. It rained for 40 days. During this time the flood level rose and the boat floated. It rose more and the boat began to drift. It rose again until the highest land was flooded to a depth of 7 metres. Noah's world was destroyed.
After 40 days the rain stopped but the flood level remained high for another 110 days. A strong drying wind was blowing but as fast as the water evaporated more poured in to replace it. However 150 days from the onset of the rains on the 17th day of the 7th month the flood was definitely receding because the boat came to rest on the hills of Ararat.
The flood level dropped steadily until on the 1st day of the 10 month, 224 days from the start of the rains, the highest land could be seen.
Forty days later Noah opened a ventilation flap and released a crow and a dove. The crow did not come back but conditions were not right for the dove so it returned to the boat.
After another 7 days the dove was released again and brought back an olive leaf in its beak.
Seven more days passed and this time when the dove was released it was not seen again.
On the 1st day of the new year, 314 days from the beginning of the flood, Noah climbed out through the roof. No surface water remained. It took another 56 days for the flood deposits to dry out. Only then, the 27th day of the 2nd month of the new year, did Noah step out on to dry land.