Genesis 1:6
And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
5And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.
Cross References
Genesis 1:20God also said: Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven.
Job 26:7He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:13His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.
Job 37:18Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.
Psalms 19:1Unto the end. A psalm for David.
Psalms 33:6By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the power of them by the spirit 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 →