Genesis 8:3
King James Version (KJV)
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
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.
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Genesis 8:3 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
- WEB World English Bible
- The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
- ASV American Standard Version
- and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.