KJV King James Version
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
WEB World English Bible
The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Genesis 8
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;
3 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.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיָּשֻׁ֧בוּH7725 · shuvto return: returnהַמַּ֛יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterמֵעַ֥לH5921 · aluponהָאָ֖רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetהָל֣וֹךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentוָשׁ֑וֹבH7725 · shuvto return: returnוַיַּחְסְר֣וּH2637 · cha.serto lackהַמַּ֔יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterמִקְצֵ֕הH7097 · qa.tsehendחֲמִשִּׁ֥יםH2572 · cha.mish.shimfiftyוּמְאַ֖תH3967 · me.ahhundredיֽוֹם׃H3117 · yomday
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