Genesis 8:2

2 The outlets of the water beneath the earth and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain stopped,

Genesis 8:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 8:2

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.

Genesis 8:2 In-Context

1 God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down.

2 The outlets of the water beneath the earth and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain stopped,

3 and the water gradually went down for 150 days.

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.

5 The water kept going down, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.