Genesis 8:2 - New Revised Standard Version

² the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens 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

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:12

The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:4

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

Job 38:16

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38:37

Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

Proverbs 8:28

when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,

Jonah 2:3

You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.

Matthew 8:9

For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and the slave does it.”