Genesis 1:9

Then 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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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 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.

10God called the dry ground land, and he called that water sea. God looked at the land and the sea, and he saw that everything was good.

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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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