Genesis 8:2
World English Bible (WEB)
The 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 continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.
Genesis 8:2 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, 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;
- 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;