Genesis 8:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

God stopped up the places where the water had been gushing out from under the earth. He also closed up the sky, and the rain stopped.

Cross References

Genesis 7:11

Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.

Genesis 7:4

Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.

Job 38:16

Job, have you ever walked on the ocean floor?

Job 38:37

Can you count the clouds or pour out their water

Proverbs 8:28

I was with him when he placed the clouds in the sky and created the springs that fill the ocean.

Jonah 2:3

You threw me down to the bottom of the sea. The water was churning all around; I was completely covered by your mighty waves.

Matthew 8:9

I have officers who give orders to me, and I have soldiers who take orders from me. I can say to one of them, ‘Go!’ and he goes. I can say to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes. I can say to my servant, ‘Do this!’ and he will do it.”