Genesis 1:9
Then God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together, and let the dry ground appear.” It was so.
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In Context
8God called the dome the ‘sky’. There was an evening and a morning, making the second day.
10God called the dry ground ‘land’ and he called the gathered waters ‘seas’. God saw that it was good.
Cross References
Psalms 24:2For he founded it on the seas, and on the floods he sustains it.
Psalms 95:5The sea is his, for he made it: the dry land was formed by his hands.
Psalms 104:5He founded the earth upon pillars, to sustain it unshaken forever.
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 →