Genesis 1:6

Againe God said, Let there be a firmament in the mids of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 God called the Light, Day, and the darkenes, he called Night. So the euening and the morning were the first day.

7Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament: and it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:20Afterward God said, Let the waters bring foorth in abundance euery creeping thing that hath life: and let the foule flie vpon the earth in the open firmament of the heauen.

Job 26:7He stretcheth out the North ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing.

Job 26:13His Spirite hath garnished the heauens, and his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

Job 37:18Hast thou stretched out the heaues, which are strong, and as a molten glasse?

Psalms 19:1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The heauens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth ye worke of his hands.

Psalms 33:6By the worde of the Lord were the heauens made, and all the hoste of them by the breath of his mouth.

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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