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Genesis 8:2
The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
Genesis 8:2 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Genesis 8:2 in other translations
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
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In context
1 And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:
2 The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
3 And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.
5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
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