Genesis 1:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 But 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;
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
  • Ps 95:5 : 5 The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
  • 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 24:1-2 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it. 2 For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.
  • 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.
  • 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 1:7 : 7 All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.
  • Jonah 1:9 : 9 And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
  • Rev 10:6 : 6 And took his oath by him who is living for ever and ever, who made the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there would be no more waiting:
  • Ps 104:5-9 : 5 He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever; 6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains; 7 At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear; 8 The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them. 9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.
  • Ps 104:3 : 3 The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:
  • Job 26:7 : 7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 1:10-28
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    89%

    10 And 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.

    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.

    12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

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

    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:

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

    16 And 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.

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

    18 To 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.

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

    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.

    21 And 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.

    22 And 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.

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

    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.

    25 And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

    26 And 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.

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

    28 And 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 1:1-8
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    1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

    2 And 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.

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

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

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

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

    7 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.

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

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

  • Gen 8:13-15
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    13 And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

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

    15 And God said to Noah,

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

  • Ps 95:5
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    5 The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5 But 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;

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

  • Gen 11:1
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    1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

  • Exod 14:21
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    21 And 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.

  • Jonah 1:9
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    9 And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.

  • Ps 33:7
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    7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

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

  • Jer 4:23
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    23 Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

  • Gen 9:1
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    1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

  • Gen 2:19
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    19 And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

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

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

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

  • Gen 7:19
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    19 And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

  • Prov 8:29
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    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: