Bible verse
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Genesis 8:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 8.
1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
KJV
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
ASV
the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
ERV
the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
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