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


In Context

1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

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

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

4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest 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 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.

The American 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;