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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 8, Verse 2

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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;
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;
New English Translation
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
World English Bible
The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
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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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And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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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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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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And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
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Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
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But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
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And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
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And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
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And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.