Genesis 1:9

And Elohim said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the yabashah (dry land) appear; and it was so.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

In Context

8And Elohim called the raki'a Shomayim (Heaven). And the erev and the boker were Yom Sheni (Day Two, the Second Day).

10And Elohim called the yabashah Eretz (Earth); and the mikveh (gathering together of the waters) called He Seas; and Elohim saw that it was tov.

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Cross References

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

Job 38:8Or who shut up the yam behind doors? 1 Who brought it forth, issuing out of the rekhem (womb), 1

Psalms 24:2For He hath founded it upon the yamim (seas), 1 and established it upon the waters. 1

Psalms 95:5The yam is His, and He made it; 1 and His hands formed the yabashah (dry land). 1

Psalms 104:5Who laid the mekhonim (foundations) of ha'aretz, 1 that it should not move out of place olam va'ed. 1

Proverbs 8:28When He established the clouds above, 1 when He strengthened the fountains of the tehom, 1

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 →

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