Genesis 1:6

And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.

Darby Translation

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 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.

7And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters that are under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.

Job 26:7He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;

Job 26:13By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent.

Job 37:18Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?

Psalms 19:1{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} The heavens declare the glory of God; and the expanse sheweth the work of his hands.

Psalms 33:6By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

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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