2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;


In Context

1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

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

4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:2Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:2The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:2the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:2the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.