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Genesis 8:2

World English Bible

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

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Genesis 8:2 in other translations

the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Genesis 8:2 · American Standard Version

Genesis 8:2 in context

  1. 1God 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. 2The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
  3. 3The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
  4. 4The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.