Genesis 1:8

And when God made it, he called it sky. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 2.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

In Context

7So God made the sky to split the water in half. God left some of the water up high, and he left some of it on the ground, and he put the sky in the middle.

9Then God said, “I want all the water that is on the ground to come together to one place, and I want dry ground to come up.” Then the water moved to the places where God wanted it, and the dry ground came up.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:5He called the light day time, and he called the dark night time. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 1.

Genesis 1:13After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 3.

Genesis 1:23After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 5.

Genesis 5:2And he made them men and women, and he called them human beings, and he was good to them.

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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