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Genesis 8:3

Waiting on God

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;

2 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.

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

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.

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BSB
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
KJV
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
WEB
The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded.
ASV
and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
DARBY
And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.
BLB
And the waters turned back from the earth, going and returning, and the waters decreased at the end of fifty and a hundred days.
ÅB
Og vannet vek etterhvert tilbake fra jorden, og vannet begynte å avta, da hundre og femti dager var gått.
OTB
Vannet trakk seg jevnt tilbake fra jorden, og ved slutten av hundre og femti dager hadde vannet avtatt.
B1930
Og vannet vek efterhånden tilbake fra jorden, og vannet begynte å ta av, da hundre og femti dager var gått.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Genesis 7:24

    And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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  • Genesis 7:11

    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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