In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
Genesis 8:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; Common English Bible The springs of the deep sea and the skies closed up. The skies held back the rain. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up: and the rain from heaven was restrained. |
In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground.*
*Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it.*