Genesis 8:3

In 11 translations

BSB

The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

KJV

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.continually: Heb. in going and returning

WEB

The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.

ASV

and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

LSV

And the waters return from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

YLT

And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

DBY

And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.

DRC

And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

GNV

And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.

JPS

And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

LXXE

And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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WLC

וַיָּשֻׁ֧בוּ הַמַּ֛יִם מֵעַ֥ל הָאָ֖רֶץ הָל֣וֹךְ וָשׁ֑וֹב וַיַּחְסְר֣וּ הַמַּ֔יִם מִקְצֵ֕ה חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּמְאַ֖ת יֽוֹם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐνεδίδου τὸ ὕδωρ πορευόμενον ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς· καὶ ἠλαττονοῦτο τὸ ὕδωρ μετὰ πεντήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ἡμέρας.

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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 7:24And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
• 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.

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