Genesis 8:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the gushing rain from the sky was checked,

American Standard Version (1901)

² the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Common English Bible

² The springs of the deep sea and the skies closed up. The skies held back the rain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up: and the rain from heaven was restrained.

Genesis 8:2 Cross References

Genesis 7:11

1 In the six hundreth year of the life of Noe in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were open:

Genesis 7:12

2 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:4

For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Job 38:16

2 Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail :

Job 38:37

Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Proverbs 8:28

5 He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord:

Jonah 2:3

And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying:

Matthew 8:9

7 That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet Isaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.