Genesis 8:2
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New International Version (©2011)
Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The water sources from the ocean depths were blocked and the floodgates of the heavens were closed.

NET Bible (©2006)
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The deep springs and the sky had been shut, and the rain had stopped pouring.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

Darby Bible Translation
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

World English Bible
The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Young's Literal Translation
and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:1-3 The whole race of mankind, except Noah and his family, were now dead, so that God's remembering Noah, was the return of his mercy to mankind, of whom he would not make a full end. The demands of Divine justice had been answered by the ruin of sinners. God sent his wind to dry the earth, and seal up his waters. The same hand that brings the desolation, must bring the deliverance; to that hand, therefore, we must ever look. When afflictions have done the work for which they are sent, whether killing work or curing work, they will be taken away. As the earth was not drowned in a day, so it was not dried in a day. God usually works deliverance for his people gradually, that the day of small things may not be despised, nor the day of great things despaired of.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped. וַיִּסָּכְרוּ, from סָכַר = סָגַר, to surround, to enclose; literally, were shut up; ἐπεκαλύφθησαν (LXX.). Their opening was described in Genesis 7:11. And the rain from heaven was restrained. וַיִּכָּלֵא, literally, was shut up, from כָּלָא, to close. Cf. κλείω, κωλύω, κολούω, celo, occulo (Gesenius, Furst), συνεσχέθη (LXX). At the end of the forty days (Genesis 7:12; Augustine, Willet); at the end of the 150 days (Aben Ezra, Murphy).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven, were stopped,.... The passages which let out the subterraneous waters in great quantity upon the earth, and the clouds of heaven, which poured down water upon it like spouts, were stopped from sending forth any more, as they had from the first of the flood unto one hundred and fifty days from thence: Jarchi observes, that it is not said that "all" the fountains of the deep, as when they were broken up, Genesis 7:11 because some of them were left open for the use and benefit of the world; besides, some must be left for the return of the waters:

and the rain from heaven was restrained: which seems to confirm what has been before observed, that after the rain of forty days and nights it ceased not to rain, more or less, though not so vehemently, until the end of an hundred and fifty days, and then it entirely ceased.

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The Ark Rests on Ararat
1And 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 assuaged; 2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. …

Genesis 7:4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month--on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Job 38:16 "Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?