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


In Context

1 And God remembereth Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which are with him in the ark, and God causeth a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

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

3 And 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.

4 And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on 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 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;