Genesis 1:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 148:4 : 4 Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed: 29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:
  • 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.
  • Gen 1:9 : 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
  • Gen 1:11 : 11 And 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 1:15 : 15 And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.
  • Gen 1:24 : 24 And 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.
  • Job 26:8 : 8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; 9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, 10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; 11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
  • Ps 104:10 : 10 You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

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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.

    6And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

  • Gen 1:8-11
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    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 1:13-23
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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.

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    4These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

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

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    10And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

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

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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.

    19And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

    20The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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    14And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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    13The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

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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.

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