Genesis 8:2

In 11 translations

BSB

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

KJV

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

WEB

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

ASV

the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

LSV

and the fountains of the deep and the network of the heavens are closed, and the shower is restrained from the heavens.

YLT

and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

DBY

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.

DRC

The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

GNV

The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,

JPS

the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

LXXE

And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the flood-gates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַיִּסָּֽכְרוּ֙ מַעְיְנֹ֣ת תְּה֔וֹם וַֽאֲרֻבֹּ֖ת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וַיִּכָּלֵ֥א הַגֶּ֖שֶׁם מִן־הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐπεκαλύφθησαν αἱ πηγαὶ τῆς ἀβύσσου, καὶ οἱ καταῤῥάκται τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ συνεσχέθη ὁ ὑετὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ.

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• Noah and the Flood When human violence fills the earth, God grieves and resolves to judge it, but Noah finds favour and is told to build an ark for his family …

Cross-references most cited first

• Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
• Matthew 8:26–27“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm. The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and…
• Proverbs 8:28when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
• Matthew 8:9For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
• Job 38:37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
• Job 37:11–13He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them. They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth. Whether for punishment or for…
• Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

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