Parallel Verses
NET Bible
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
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,
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 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded. 2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky. 3 The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month -- on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Job 37:11-13
He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.
Job 38:37
Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
Proverbs 8:28
when he established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong,
Jonah 2:3
You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.
Matthew 8:9
For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this 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
But he said to them, "Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.