Genesis 8:2

The Passion Translation

He closed the subterranean fountains and the floodgates of heaven and held back the rain.

Cross References

Genesis 7:11

It started in the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month on the seventeenth day. On that day, all the fountains of the subterranean deep cracked open and burst up through the ground. Heaven’s floodgates were opened,

Genesis 7:12

and heavy rains fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:4

For in seven days I will send rain and flood the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I made I will wipe off the face of the earth.”

Proverbs 8:28

when the clouds and skies were set in place and the subterranean fountains began to flow strong, I was already there.