Genesis 8:3

And the waters return from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

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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

2and the fountains of the deep and the network of the heavens are closed, and the shower is restrained from the heavens.

4And the Ark rests, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;

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Cross References

Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all [the] fountains of the great deep have been broken up, and the network of the heavens has been opened,

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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