Genesis 1:9
God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
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8God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Cross References
Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
Job 38:8“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
Psalms 24:2For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
Psalms 95:5The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
Psalms 104:5He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
Proverbs 8:28when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
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 →