Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, New Living Translation So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days, English Standard Version and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, Berean Standard Bible The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. King James Bible And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. New King James Version And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. New American Standard Bible and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased. NASB 1995 and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. NASB 1977 and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. Legacy Standard Bible and the water receded from the earth, going forth and returning, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased. Amplified Bible and the waters receded steadily from the earth. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had diminished. Christian Standard Bible The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the water had decreased significantly. Holman Christian Standard Bible The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly. American Standard Version and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the waters returned from the Earth; they were going and were returning, and the waters decreased after a hundred and fifty days. Brenton Septuagint Translation And the water subsided, and went off the earth, and after an hundred and fifty days the water was diminished, and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. Contemporary English Version For 150 days the water slowly went down. Douay-Rheims Bible And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days. English Revised Version and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of an hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. GOD'S WORD® Translation The water began to recede from the land. At the end of 150 days the water had decreased. Good News Translation and the water gradually went down for 150 days. International Standard Version Then the flood waters steadily receded, diminishing completely by the end of the 150 days. JPS Tanakh 1917 And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. Literal Standard Version And the waters return from off the earth, going on and returning; and the waters are lacking at the end of one hundred and fifty days. Majority Standard Bible The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. New American Bible Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished NET Bible The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days. New Revised Standard Version and the waters gradually receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had abated; New Heart English Bible And the waters receded steadily from the land. And after the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased significantly. Webster's Bible Translation And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. World English Bible The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded. Young's Literal Translation 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Ark Rests on Ararat…2The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. 4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.… Cross References Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days. Genesis 8:5 And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. Treasury of Scripture And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. continually. Genesis 7:11,24 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… Jump to Previous Abated Continually Course Decreased Earth End Fifty Hundred Lower Receded Returning Slowly Steadily Turn Water WatersJump to Next Abated Continually Course Decreased Earth End Fifty Hundred Lower Receded Returning Slowly Steadily Turn Water WatersGenesis 8 1. God remembers Noah and calms the waters.4. The ark rests on Ararat. 6. Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove. 13. Noah, being commanded, goes forth from the ark. 20. He builds an altar, and offers sacrifices, 21. which God accepts, and promises to curse the earth no more. (3) The waters returned from off the earth.--This backward motion of the waters also seems to indicate that a vast wave from the sea had swept over the land, in addition to the forty days of rain. Were abated.--Heb., decreased. Those in the ark would notice the changing current, and would know, by their being aground, that the flood was diminishing. But it was not till the first day of the tenth month that the tops of the mountains were seen. This slow abatement of the waters and their stillness, described in Genesis 8:1, makes it probable that the ark had grounded on some land-locked spot. Verse 3. - And the waters returned from off the earth continually. Literally, going and returning. "More and more" (Gesenius). The first verb expresses the continuance and self-increasing state of the action involved in the second; cf. Genesis 26:13; 1 Samuel 6:12; 2 Kings 2:11 (Furst). Gradually (Murphy, Ewald). The expression "denotes the turning-point after the waters had become calm" (T. Lewis). May it not be an attempt to represent the undulatory motion of the waves in an ebbing tide, in which the water seems first to advance, but only to retire with greater vehemence, reversing the movement of a flowing tide, in which it first retires and then advances - in the one case returning to go, in the other going to return? The LXX., as usual, indicates the visible effect rather than the actual phenomenon: καὶ ἐνεδίδου τὸ ὕδωρ πορεύομενον ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς. And after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. Literally, were cut off, hence diminished; imminsutae sunt (Vulgate); ἠλαττονοῦτο τὸ ὕδωρ (LXX.). The first stage was the quieting of the waters; the second was the commencement of an ebbing or backward motion; the third was a perceptible diminution of the waters.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The watersהַמַּ֛יִם (ham·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen receded וַיָּשֻׁ֧בוּ (way·yā·šu·ḇū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again steadily הָל֣וֹךְ (hā·lō·wḵ) Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk from מֵעַ֥ל (mê·‘al) Preposition-m Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against the earth, הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land and after מִקְצֵ֕ה (miq·ṣêh) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7097: End, extremity 150 וּמְאַ֖ת (ū·mə·’aṯ) Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular construct Strong's 3967: A hundred days יֽוֹם׃ (yō·wm) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day the waters הַמַּ֔יִם (ham·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen had gone down. וַיַּחְסְר֣וּ (way·yaḥ·sə·rū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 2637: To lack, need, be lacking, decrease Links Genesis 8:3 NIVGenesis 8:3 NLT Genesis 8:3 ESV Genesis 8:3 NASB Genesis 8:3 KJV Genesis 8:3 BibleApps.com Genesis 8:3 Biblia Paralela Genesis 8:3 Chinese Bible Genesis 8:3 French Bible Genesis 8:3 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 8:3 The waters receded from the earth continually (Gen. 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