Parallel Verses
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;
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;
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,
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.
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 Noah, and all the wild - beasts and all the tame-beasts that were with him in the ark, - and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided; 2 and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens, - and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens; 3 and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning, - and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.
Job 37:11-13
Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning-cloud;
Job 38:37
Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
Proverbs 8:28
When he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the resounding deep, waxed strong;
Jonah 2:3
For thou hast cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and, a flood, enveloped me, - All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, passed.
Matthew 8:9
For, I also, am a man setunder authority, having under myself, soldiers, - and I say to this one, Go! and he goeth, and to another, Come! and he cometh, and, to my servant, Do this! and he doeth it.
Matthew 8:26-27
And he saith unto them, Why, are ye, fearful, little of faith? Then, aroused, he rebuked the winds and the sea, - and it became a great calm.