Parallel Verses
Amplified
Also the fountains of the deep [subterranean waters] and the windows of the heavens were closed, the [pouring] rain from the sky was restrained,
New American Standard Bible
Also
King James Version
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Holman Bible
The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.
International Standard Version
The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed.
A Conservative Version
Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
American Standard Version
the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Bible in Basic English
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.
Darby Translation
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.
Julia Smith Translation
And the fountains of the deep, and the sluices of the heavens shall be shut up, and the rains from the heavens shall be withheld.
King James 2000
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
Modern King James verseion
Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and rain from heaven was restrained.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain of heaven was forbidden,
NET Bible
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
New Heart English Bible
The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
The Emphasized Bible
and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens, - and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens;
Webster
The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
World English Bible
The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Youngs Literal Translation
and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 8:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Flood Subsides
1 And God remembered and thought kindly of Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters receded. 2 Also the fountains of the deep [subterranean waters] and the windows of the heavens were closed, the [pouring] rain from the sky was restrained, 3 and the waters receded steadily from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Job 37:11-13
“He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
He disperses the cloud of His lightning.
Job 38:37
“Who can count the clouds by [earthly] wisdom,
Or pour out the water jars of the heavens,
Proverbs 8:28
When He made firm the skies above,
When the fountains and springs of the deep became fixed and strong,
Jonah 2:3
“For You cast me into the deep,
Into the [deep] heart of the seas,
And the currents surrounded and engulfed me;
All Your breakers and billowing waves passed over me.
Matthew 8:9
For I also am a man subject to authority [of a higher rank], with soldiers subject to me; and I say to one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
Matthew 8:26-27
He said to them,