Genesis 8:2
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
In context
1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8:2 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- KJV King James Version
- The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- WEB World English Bible
- The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- ASV American Standard Version
- the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.
- WBS Webster Bible
- The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;