Genesis 8:2
King James Version (KJV)
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
In context
1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8:2 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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;