Genesis 1:6

And God says, “Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.”

Literal Standard Version

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 calls the light “Day,” and the darkness He has called “Night”; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—day one.

7And God makes the expanse, and it separates between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20And God says, “Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and let [the] bird fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.”

Job 26:7Stretching out the north over desolation, || Hanging the earth on nothing,

Job 26:13He beautified the heavens by His Spirit, || His hand has formed the fleeing serpent.

Job 37:18You have made an expanse with Him || For the clouds—strong as a hard mirror!

Psalms 19:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. The heavens [are] recounting the glory of God, || And the expanse [is] declaring the work of His hands.

Psalms 33:6By the word of YHWH || The heavens have been made, || And all their host 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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