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 8:3 in other translations
| BSB | The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. |
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| WEB | The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded. |
| ASV | and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated. |
| BBE | And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower. |
| Webster | And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. |
What does Genesis 8:3 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 8:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 8:3
- 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.
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Context
- 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 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y tornáronse las aguas de sobre la tierra, yendo y volviendo: y decrecieron las aguas al cabo de ciento y cincuenta días. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, allant et se retirant; et les eaux diminuèrent au bout de 150 jours. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Wasser wichen von der Erde, fort und fort weichend; und die Wasser nahmen ab nach Verlauf von 150 Tagen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Reversæque sunt aquæ de terra euntes et redeuntes: et cœperunt minui post centum quinquaginta dies. |