Genesis 8:3
“And the waters returned from off the earth, continually: and after the end of the hundred and fiftie dayes, the waters were abated.”
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Genesis 8:3 Context
1And God remembred Noah, and euery liuing thing, and all the cattell that was with him in the Arke: and God made a winde to passe ouer the earth, and the waters asswaged. 2The fountaines also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the raine from heauen was restrained. 3And the waters returned from off the earth, continually: and after the end of the hundred and fiftie dayes, the waters were abated. 4And the Arke rested in the seuenth moneth, on the seuenteenth day of the moneth, vpon the mountaines of Ararat. 5And the waters decreased continually vntill the tenth moneth: in the tenth moneth, on the first day of the moneth, were the tops of the mountaines seene.
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Other Translations for 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.
- King James Version
and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.
- Basic English Bible
And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.
- Darby Bible
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
- Webster's Bible
The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
- World English Bible
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.
- Youngs Literal Bible
And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Genesis 8:3
8:3 The waters returned from off the earth continually - Heb. they were going and returning; a gradual departure. The heat of the sun exhaled much, and perhaps the subterraneous caverns soaked in more.