Genesis 8:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, 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

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 7:12

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:4

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

Job 38:16

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38:37

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,

Proverbs 8:28

When he made firm the sides above: When the fountains of the deep became strong:

Jonah 2:3

For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

Matthew 8:9

For I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.