Genesis 8:2
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
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- Gen 7:11 : 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month– on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- Job 37:11-13 : 11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds. 12 The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world. 13 Whether it is for punishment, or for his land, or for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.
- Job 38:37 : 37 Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
- Prov 8:28 : 28 when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,
- Jonah 2:3 : 3 You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.
- Matt 8:9 : 9 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one,‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
- Matt 8:26-27 : 26 But he said to them,“Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm. 27 And the men were amazed and said,“What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”
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3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
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1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
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10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month– on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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5The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
9The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.
10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.
11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.
13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
15Then God spoke to Noah and said,
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23So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.
24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.
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17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.
20The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.
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28when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,
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4For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
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5and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
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6Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.
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11I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”
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15then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.
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6Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
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6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
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7So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.
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17I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
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8But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.