Parallel Verses
King James Version
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
New American Standard Bible
and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end
Holman Bible
The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly.
International Standard Version
Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days.
A Conservative Version
And the waters returned from off the earth continually. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
American Standard Version
and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
Amplified
and the waters receded steadily from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished.
Bible in Basic English
And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.
Darby Translation
And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.
Julia Smith Translation
And the waters shall turn back from over the earth, going and turning back, and the waters shall fail from the end of fifty and one hundred days.
King James 2000
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the waters receded from the earth {gradually}, and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days.
Modern King James verseion
And the waters returned from off the earth continually. And after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and the waters returned from off the earth and abated after the end of a hundred and fifty days.
NET Bible
The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
New Heart English Bible
The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
The Emphasized Bible
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.
Webster
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
World English Bible
The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Interlinear
Mayim
Shuwb
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Qatseh
Yowm
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 8:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Flood Subsides
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Cross References
Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.