Genesis 8:2 — Meaning and Application

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

Genesis 8:2

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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 asswaged;

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

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. {continually: Heb. in going and returning}

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

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Genesis 8:1

"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 asswaged;"

Genesis 8:3

"And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. {continually: Heb. in going and returning}"

Genesis 8:4

"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat."

Genesis 8:5

"And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth {month}, on the first {day} of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. {decreased...: Heb. were in going and decreasing}"

Genesis 8:6

"And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:"

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