Genesis 1:6

And Elohim said, Let there be a raki'a (expanse, dome, firmament) in the midst of the mayim (waters), and let it divide the mayim from the mayim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Elohim called the light Yom (Day), and the darkness He called Lailah (Night). And the erev (evening) and the boker (morning) were Yom Echad - 1:5 Mk 16:2 (Day One, the First Day).

7And Elohim made the raki'a, and divided the waters under the raki'a from the waters which were above the raki'a; and it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20And Elohim said, Let the waters bring forth an abundance of living creatures, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open raki'a of heaven.

Job 26:7He stretcheth out the Tzafon over the tohu, 1 and hangeth eretz upon nothing. 1

Job 26:13By His Ruach He hath made fair Shomayim; 1 His yad hath pierced the fleeing nachash. 1

Job 37:18Hast thou with Him spread out the shekhakim (clouds), 1 hard as a molten mirror? 1

Psalms 19:1(For the one directing. Mizmor Dovid) 1

Psalms 33:6By the Devar Hashem were Shomayim made; 1 and all the tz'va (host) of them by the ruach (breath) of His mouth. + 33:6 MJ 11:3; Yn 1:1; Ps 56:5 1

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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