Genesis 1:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

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  • Jer 51:15 : 15 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
  • Job 37:18 : 18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?
  • Ps 33:6 : 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.
  • Job 26:7-8 : 7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing. 8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
  • Ps 33:9 : 9 For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.
  • Ps 136:5-6 : 5 To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 6 To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:
  • Ps 19:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.
  • Jer 10:12-13 : 12 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out. 13 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
  • Ps 148:4 : 4 Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.
  • Ps 150:1 : 1 Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.
  • Job 38:22-26 : 22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops, 23 Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting? 24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth? 25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder; 26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
  • Job 26:13 : 13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
  • Job 37:11 : 11 The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
  • Gen 1:14 : 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
  • Gen 1:20 : 20 And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
  • Gen 7:11-12 : 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open; 12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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  • Gen 1:7-11
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    7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

    8And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

    10And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

    11And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

  • Gen 1:13-24
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    13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

    14And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

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

    16And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

    17And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

    18To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

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

    20And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

    21And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

    22And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

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

    24And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

  • Gen 1:1-5
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    1At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

    2And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

    3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    4And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

    5Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

    27And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

    28And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

  • Gen 2:4
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    4These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

    6And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

  • Ps 33:6-7
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    6By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

    7He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.

  • Ps 19:1
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    1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

  • Prov 8:28
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    28When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

  • Gen 8:2
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    2And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

  • Job 26:10
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    10By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • Ps 148:4
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    4Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.

  • Jer 51:16
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    16At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

  • Gen 7:10
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    10And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

  • Gen 2:1
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    1And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.

  • Ezek 1:25
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    25And there was a voice from the top of the arch which was over their heads: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

  • Exod 14:21
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    21And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

  • Ps 104:6
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    6Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

  • Gen 8:15
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    15And God said to Noah,

  • Ezek 1:22
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    22And over the heads of the living beings there was the form of an arch, looking like ice, stretched out over their heads on high.

  • Gen 7:18
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    18And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

  • Amos 9:6
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    6It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.

  • Gen 1:31
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    31And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.