3And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.


In Context

1 And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

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

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

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

5 And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

Genesis 8:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:3The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:3and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:3and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of an hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3And 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.