Genesis 8:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was withheld.

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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 Noaḥ’s life, in the second new moon, the seventeenth day of the moon, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:12

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

Genesis 7:4

“For after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, and shall wipe from the face of the earth all that stand that I created.”

Job 38:16

Have you come to the sources of the sea? Or have you walked about in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38:37

Who has wisdom to count the clouds, or to tip over the bottles of the heavens,

Proverbs 8:28

“When He set the clouds above, When He made the fountains of the deep strong,

Jonah 2:3

“For You threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.

Matthew 8:9

For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.