Genesis 8:3
The floodwaters steadily receded from the earth. They had gone down so much that by 150 days after the flood began
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2The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall was stopped.
Cross References
Genesis 7:11Noah was 600 when on the seventeenth day of the second month all the subterranean waters burst through the earth, and heavy rain poured down from the sky.
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 →