Genesis 8:3

The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters receded.

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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

2The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

4The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows 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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