“The wellsprings of the depth and the windows of the heavens were dammed, and the rain from the heavens was terminated” (Genesis 8:2). “The wellsprings of the depth…were dammed” – Rabbi Elazar said: In a bad context [it states]: “On that day all the wellsprings of the great depth were breached” (Genesis 7:11), but in a good context [it states]: “The wellsprings31Omitting the word “all.” of the depth…were dammed” – but not all the wellsprings, to exclude the [hot] spring of Tiberias, Ḥamat Gader, and the Banyas Cave. “The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:4). “The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth [day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat]” – on the Corduene mountains.