Genesis 8:3

And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The 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.

In Context

2The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

4And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:11In the six hundreth year of the life of Noe in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were open:

Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:2-4

The Earth Becomes Dry. ( b. c. 2349.) 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 assuaged; 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. Here is, I. An act of God's grace: God remembered Noah and every… Read the whole commentary →

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