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NASB					Gen 8:2 Also ^Athe fountains⁴⁵⁹⁹ of the deep⁸⁴¹⁵ and the ¹floodgates⁶⁹⁹ of the sky⁸⁰⁶⁴ were closed^5534a, and ^Bthe rain¹⁶⁵³ from the sky⁸⁰⁶⁴ was restrained³⁶⁰⁷;
AMPLIFIED 2015					Gen 8:2 Also the fountains of the deep [subterranean waters] and the windows of the heavens were closed, the [pouring] rain from the sky was restrained,

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Or windows of the heavens

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Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

Gen 7:4 "For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."

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699

arubbah (70c); from 693; a lattice, window, sluice:--chimney(1), floodgates(2), lattices(1), windows(5).

1653

geshem (177c); from an unused word; rain, shower:--downpour and the rain*(1), rain(24), rains(1), rainy(2), shower(3), showers(2), showers of rain(1).

3607

kala (476b); a prim. root; to shut up, restrain, withhold:--hold them back(1), kept(1), refuse(1), restrain(3), restrained(3), shut(4), stopped(1), withheld(2), withhold(1).

4599

mayan or
mayeno or
mayanah (745d); from 5869; a spring:--fountain(2), fountains(2), spring(8), springs(11).

5534a

sakar (698c); a prim. root; to shut up, stop up:--closed(1), deliver(1), stopped(1).

8064

shamayim (1029c); from an unused word; heaven, sky:--astrologers*(1), compass(1), earth(1), heaven(191), heaven and the highest(2), heaven and the highest heavens(1), heaven of heavens(1), heavenly(3), heavens(151), heavens and the highest(1), highest heaven(1), highest heaven(1), highest heavens(4), horizons(1), other*(1), sky(50).

8415

tehom or
tehom (1062d); from an unused word; deep, sea, abyss:--deep(22), deeps(8), depths(4), ocean depths(1), springs(1).

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