Genesis 8:2
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Genesis 8:2 in other translations
| BSB | The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. |
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| WEB | The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. |
| ASV | the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; |
| YLT | and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens. |
| DARBY | And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped. |
| BBE | And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped. |
| Webster | The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; |
What does Genesis 8:2 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 8:1-3
The whole race of mankind, except Noah and his family, were now dead, so that God's remembering Noah, was the return of his mercy to mankind, of whom he would not make a full end. The demands of Divine justice had been answered by the ruin of sinners. God sent his wind to dry the earth, and seal up his waters. The same hand that brings the desolation, must bring the deliverance; to that hand, therefore, we must ever…
Genesis 8:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 8:2
- 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.
- Matthew 8:26-27
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
- Proverbs 8:28
When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
- Job 37:11-13
Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
- Matthew 8:9
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
- Jonah 2:3
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
- Job 38:37
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
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Context
- Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
- Genesis 8:2
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- Genesis 8:3
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Genesis 8:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y se cerraron las fuentes del abismo, y las cataratas de los cielos; y la lluvia de los cielos fué detenida. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et les fontaines de l’abîme et les écluses des cieux furent fermées, et la pluie qui tombait du ciel fut retenue. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es wurden verschlossen die Quellen der Tiefe und die Fenster des Himmels, und dem Regen vom Himmel ward gewehrt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et clausi sunt fontes abyssi, et cataractæ cæli: et prohibitæ sunt pluviæ de cælo. |