Genesis 8:3
World English Bible (WEB)
The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
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.
5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
Genesis 8:3 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
- 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.
- 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.