Genesis 8:2

and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

In Context

1And God remembereth Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which [are] with him in the ark, and God causeth a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

3And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

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Cross References

Job 37:11Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

Proverbs 8:28In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,

Matthew 8:9for I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth, and to another, Be coming, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doth [it].'

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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