Genesis 1:6

And God said, Let there be an expansion in the midst of the waters, and let it divide between waters and waters.

Leeser Tanakh

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 it was evening and it was morning, the first day.

7And God made the expansion, and divided between the waters which were under the expansion and the waters which were above the expansion: and it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly moving creatures that have life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open expansion of the heaven.

Job 26:7He stretched out the north over empty space; he suspended the earth on nothing;

Job 26:13By his breath the heavens [acquired] beauty; his hand hath created the flying serpent.

Job 37:18Hast thou with him spread out the skies, which are strong even as a molten mirror?

Psalms 19:1“To the chief musician, a psalm of David.” (19:2) The heavens relate the glory of God; and the expanse telleth of the works of his hands.

Psalms 33:6By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

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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