Genesis 1:6

God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”

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In The King James Version

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

In Context

5And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day.

7And God made a firmament, and he divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament. And so it became.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20And then God said, “Let the waters produce animals with a living soul, and flying creatures above the earth, under the firmament of heaven.”

Job 26:7He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing.

Job 26:13His spirit has adorned the heavens, and his birthing hand has brought forth the winding serpent.

Job 37:18Perhaps you have made the heavens with him, which are very solid, as if they had been cast from brass.

Psalms 19:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David.

Psalms 33:6Approach him and be enlightened, and your faces will not be confounded.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:4-6

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. We have here a further account of the first day's work, in which observe, 1. That the first of all visible beings which God created was light; not that by it he himself might see to work (for the darkness and light are both… Read the whole commentary →

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