Genesis 8:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

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  • Gen 7:11 : 11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,
  • Job 37:11-13 : 11 Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light. 12 And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth. 13 Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness -- He doth cause it to come.
  • Job 38:37 : 37 Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
  • Prov 8:28 : 28 In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,
  • Jonah 2:3 : 3 When Thou dost cast me `into' the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.
  • Matt 8:9 : 9 for I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth, and to another, Be coming, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doth `it'.'
  • Matt 8:26-27 : 26 And he saith to them, `Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm; 27 and the men wondered, saying, `What kind -- is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'

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  • 3 And turn back do the waters from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

  • 1 And God remembereth Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which `are' with him in the ark, and God causeth a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

  • Gen 7:10-12
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    10 And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

    11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

    12 and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • Gen 8:5-15
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    5 and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth `month', on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.

    6 And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah openeth the window of the ark which he made,

    7 and he sendeth forth the raven, and it goeth out, going out and turning back till the drying of the waters from off the earth.

    8 And he sendeth forth the dove from him to see whether the waters have been lightened from off the face of the ground,

    9 and the dove hath not found rest for the sole of her foot, and she turneth back unto him, unto the ark, for waters `are' on the face of all the earth, and he putteth out his hand, and taketh her, and bringeth her in unto him, unto the ark.

    10 And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth the dove from the ark;

    11 and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.

    12 And he stayeth yet other seven days, and sendeth forth the dove, and it added not to turn back unto him any more.

    13 And it cometh to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first `month', in the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turneth aside the covering of the ark, and looketh, and lo, the face of the ground hath been dried.

    14 And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

    15 And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, `Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee;

  • Gen 7:23-24
    2 verses
    79%

    23 And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who `are' with him in the ark;

    24 and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 7:17-20
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    79%

    17 And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;

    18 and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.

    19 And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which `are' under the whole heavens;

    20 fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;

  • 28 In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,

  • 4 for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'

  • 5 and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

  • 6 through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;

  • 11 And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and there is not any more a deluge to destroy the earth.'

  • 15 and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;

  • 6 and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.

  • 6 and Noah `is' a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.

  • 7 And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which `are' under the expanse, and the waters which `are' above the expanse: and it is so.

  • 17 `And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which `is' a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that `is' in the earth doth expire.

  • 8 And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.