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Genesis 8:2
Genesis 8:2 is verse 2 of Genesis chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
King James Version
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.
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Genesis 8:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Proverbs 8:28when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
Job 37:12They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
Job 37:13Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
Job 38:37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
Matthew 8:9For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
Matthew 8:26“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
Matthew 8:27The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”