Genesis 1:9

American Standard Version (1901)

And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

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  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
  • Ps 95:5 : 5 The sea is his, and he made it; And his hands formed the dry land.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb; 9 When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, 10 And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
  • Ps 24:1-2 : 1 [A Psalm of David]. The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.
  • Ps 136:5-6 : 5 To him that by understanding made the heavens; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever: 6 To him that spread forth the earth above the waters; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong, 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
  • Eccl 1:7 : 7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.
  • Jonah 1:9 : 9 And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.
  • Rev 10:6 : 6 and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein, that there shall be delay no longer:
  • Ps 104:5-9 : 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever. 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away 8 (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
  • Ps 104:3 : 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
  • Job 26:7 : 7 He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 1:10-28
    19 verses
    89%

    10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

    11 And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.

    12 And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

    13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

    14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

    15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

    16 And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

    17 And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,

    18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

    19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

    20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

    21 And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

    22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

    23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

    24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.

    25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

    26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

    27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

    28 And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

  • Gen 1:1-8
    8 verses
    86%

    1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2 And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

    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 there was evening and there was morning, one day.

    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 there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

  • 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

  • Gen 8:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried.

    14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

    15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,

  • 6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

  • 5 The sea is his, and he made it; And his hands formed the dry land.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;

    6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • 1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

  • 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

  • 9 And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.

  • 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.

  • 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

  • 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

  • 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

  • 19 And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

  • 10 And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

  • 1 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

  • 2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

  • 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

  • 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;