Genesis 1:9
God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day.
Cross References
Job 26:7He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Job 38:8Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb :
Psalms 24:2For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.
Psalms 95:5For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Psalms 104:5Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.
Proverbs 8:28When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:
Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:7-9
The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. We have here an account of the second day's work, the creation of the firmament, in which observe, 1. The command of God concerning it:… Read the whole commentary →