Genesis 1:6

And God said: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters.

Bible (Bishops')

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 darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first day.

7And God made the firmament, and set the diuision betwene the waters which [were] vnder the firmament, and the waters that [were] aboue the firmament: and it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20And God sayde: let the waters bryng foorth mouyng creature that hath lyfe, and foule that may flee vpon the earth in the open firmament of heauen.

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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