Scripture · Old Testament
Genesis 8:3
Genesis 8:3 is verse 3 of Genesis chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
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.
World English Bible
The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
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Genesis 8:1–5 · 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.
5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
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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.
Genesis 7:24And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.