Genesis 8:2

New American Bible - revised edition

The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.

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 abyss burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

Genesis 7:12

For forty days and forty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth.

Genesis 7:4

For seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the face of the earth every being that I have made.

Job 38:16

Have you entered into the sources of the sea, or walked about on the bottom of the deep?

Job 38:37

Who counts the clouds with wisdom? Who tilts the water jars of heaven

Proverbs 8:28

When he made firm the skies above, when he fixed fast the springs of the deep;

Jonah 2:3

Out of my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me; From the womb of Sheol I cried for help, and you heard my voice.

Matthew 8:9

For I too am a person subject to authority, with soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come here,’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”