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


In Context

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

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

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

4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

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 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;