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Genesis 8:2
The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,
Genesis 8:2 · Geneva Bible
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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 Now God remembred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with him in the Arke: therefore God made a winde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceased.
2 The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,
3 And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.
4 And in the seuenth moneth, in the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the Arke rested vpon the mountaines of Ararat.
5 And the waters were going and decreasing vntill the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, and in the first day of the moneth were the toppes of the mountaines seene.
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