Genesis 1:9
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.
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8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Cross References
Job 26:7He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Job 38:8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Psalms 24:2For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Psalms 95:5The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Psalms 104:5Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Proverbs 8:28When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
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 →