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Genesis 1:6

Then God said, “Let there be a dome between the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

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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

5calling the light ‘day’ and the darkness ‘night’. There was an evening and a morning, making the first day.

7So God made the dome to separate the waters below from the waters which were above it. It was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20Then God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth in the open dome of the sky.”

Psalms 19:1The heavens declare God’s glory, the sky tells what his hands have done.

Psalms 33:6By his word the heavens were made, 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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