Verse 9

Then God said, 'Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.' And it was so.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For they deliberately ignore this fact: that the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Should you not fear Me? declares the Lord. Should you not tremble in My presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting decree it cannot cross. Though its waves surge, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot cross it.
  • Ps 95:5 : 5 The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathers the waters of the sea like a heap; He puts the depths into storehouses.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or who enclosed the sea with doors when it burst forth from the womb, 9 when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, 10 when I set its boundary and placed bars and doors on it, 11 and said, 'This far you may come, but no farther; here is where your proud waves must halt.'
  • Ps 24:1-2 : 1 The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord, the world and all who live in it. 2 For He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
  • Ps 136:5-6 : 5 To Him who made the heavens with understanding, for His steadfast love endures forever. 6 To Him who spread out the earth upon the waters, for His steadfast love endures forever.
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 When He strengthened the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong. 29 When He set the boundary for the sea so the waters would not overstep His command, and when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
  • Eccl 1:7 : 7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place where the streams come from, there they return again.
  • Jonah 1:9 : 9 And he answered, "I am a Hebrew, and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
  • Rev 10:6 : 6 He swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it, that there would be no more delay.
  • Ps 104:5-9 : 5 He established the earth on its foundations, so that it will never be moved. 6 You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke they fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away. 8 The mountains rose, the valleys went down to the place You established for them. 9 You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.
  • Ps 104:3 : 3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot and walks on the wings of the wind.
  • Job 26:7 : 7 He stretches out the north over empty space; he hangs the earth upon nothing.