Genesis 1:6

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And God said: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters.

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  • Jer 51:15 : 15 Yea euen the Lorde of hoastes that with his power made the earth, with his wisdome prepared the round world, and with his discretion spread out the heauens.
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 Who is decked with light as it were with a garment: spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne.
  • Job 37:18 : 18 Hast thou helped him to spreade out the heauens which are strong and bright as a loking glasse?
  • Ps 33:6 : 6 By the worde of God are the heauens made: and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth.
  • Job 26:7-8 : 7 He stretcheth out the noorth ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing. 8 He byndeth the water in his cloudes, & the cloude is not broken vnder them.
  • Ps 33:9 : 9 For he spake and it was: he commauded, and it was brought to passe.
  • Ps 136:5-6 : 5 Who by his excellent wysdome made the heauens: for his mercy endureth for euer. 6 Who layde out the earth aboue the waters: for his mercy endureth for euer.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The heauy burthen which the Lorde hath deuised for Israel. Thus saith the Lorde which spread the heauens abrode, layde the foundatio of the earth, and gaue man the breath of lyfe,
  • Ps 19:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid. The heauens declare the glorie of God: and the firmament sheweth his handy worke.
  • Jer 10:12-13 : 12 But as for our God he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdome doth he order the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discretion hath he spread out the heauens. 13 At his voyce the waters gathered together in the ayre, he draweth vp the cloudes from the vttermost partes of the earth, he turneth lightning to raine, and bringeth foorth the windes out of their treasures.
  • Ps 148:4 : 4 Prayse ye hym all ye heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.
  • Ps 150:1 : 1 Prayse ye the Lorde, prayse ye the Lord in his sanctuarie: praise ye him in the firmament of his power.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 When the cloudes are full, they powre out raine vpon the earth. And when the tree falleth, whether it be towarde the south or north, in what place soeuer it fall, there it lieth.
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 But the Lorde is a true God, a liuing God, and an euerlasting kyng: if he be wroth, the earth shaketh, all the gentiles may not abide his indignation.
  • Job 38:22-26 : 22 Wentest thou euer into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou seene the secrete places of the hayle, 23 Which I haue prepared against the time of trouble, against the time of battaile and warre? 24 By what way is the light parted? and into what land breaketh the east winde? 25 Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder, 26 To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth?
  • Job 26:13 : 13 His spirite hath garnished the heauens, & his hand hath made the crooked serpent.
  • Job 37:11 : 11 He maketh the cloudes to labour in geuing moystnesse, and againe with his light he dryueth away the cloude.
  • Gen 1:14 : 14 And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres.
  • Gen 1:20 : 20 And God sayde: let the waters bryng foorth mouyng creature that hath lyfe, and foule that may flee vpon the earth in the open firmament of heauen.
  • Gen 7:11-12 : 11 In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened. 12 And the rayne was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.

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  • Gen 1:7-11
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    94%

    7And God made the firmament, and set the diuision betwene the waters which were vnder the firmament, and the waters that were aboue the firmament: and it was so.

    8And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.

    9And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so.

    10And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.

    11And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth both budde and hearbe apt to seede, and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde, which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth: and it was so.

  • Gen 1:13-24
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    13And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day.

    14And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres.

    15And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they maye geue light vpo the earth: and it was so.

    16And God made two great lyghtes: a greater lyght to rule the day, and a lesse lyght to rule the nyght, and he made starres also.

    17And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shyne vpon the earth,

    18And to rule the day and nyght, and to make difference betweene the lyght and the darknesse: and God saw that it was good.

    19And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day.

    20And God sayde: let the waters bryng foorth mouyng creature that hath lyfe, and foule that may flee vpon the earth in the open firmament of heauen.

    21And God created great whales, and euery lyuyng & mouing creature, which the waters brought foorth after theyr kynde, & euery fethered foule after their kynde: and God saw that it was good.

    22And God blessed them, saying: Be fruiteful, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sea, and let foule multiplie in the earth.

    23And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day.

    24And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth lyuyng creature after his kynde, cattell, worme, and beastes of the earth after his kynde: and it was so.

  • Gen 1:1-5
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    1In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.

    2And the earth was without fourme, and was voyde: & darknes was vpon the face of the deepe, and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters.

    3And God sayde, let there be light: and there was light.

    4And God sawe the lyght that it was good: and God deuided the lyght from the darknes.

    5And God called the light day, and the darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first day.

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth.

    27So God created man in his owne image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.

    28And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.

  • Gen 2:4
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    4These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5For this they knowe not (and that wylfully) howe that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water, and by the water, by the worde of God:

    6By the which thinges the world that then was, perisshed, beyng then ouerrunne with water.

  • Ps 33:6-7
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    6By the worde of God are the heauens made: and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth.

    7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6But there went vp a miste from the earth, & watered the whole face of the grounde.

  • Ps 19:1
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    1To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid. The heauens declare the glorie of God: and the firmament sheweth his handy worke.

  • Prov 8:28
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    28When he hanged the cloudes aboue, when he fastened the springes of the deepe:

  • Gen 8:2
    72%

    2The fountaynes also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the rayne from heauen was restrayned.

  • Job 26:10
    72%

    10He hath compassed the waters with certayne boundes, vntill the day and night come to an ende.

  • Ps 148:4
    72%

    4Prayse ye hym all ye heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.

  • Jer 51:16
    71%

    16Assoone as he letteth his voyce be hearde, the waters in the ayre waxe fierce: he draweth vp the cloudes from the endes of the earth, he turneth the lightnynges to rayne, he bryngeth the wyndes out of their secrete places.

  • Gen 7:10
    70%

    10And so it came to passe after seuen dayes, that the waters of the flud were vpon the earth.

  • Gen 2:1
    70%

    1The heauens also & the earth were finisshed, & all the hoast of them.

  • Ezek 1:25
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    25And there was a noyse from aboue the firmament that was ouer their heades: when they stoode, they let downe their wynges.

  • Exod 14:21
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    21And Moyses stretched out his hande ouer the sea, & the Lorde caused the sea to go backe by a very strong east wynde all that nyght, and made the sea drye lande and the waters were deuided.

  • Ps 104:6
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    6Thou coueredst it with the deepe, lyke as with a garment: the waters stande vpon the hilles.

  • Gen 8:15
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    15And God spake vnto Noah, saying:

  • Ezek 1:22
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    22And the similitude of the firmament vpon the heades of the beastes, was like the colour of christall wonderfull, spread ouer their heades aboue.

  • Gen 7:18
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    18The waters also waxed strong, and were encreased exceedyngly vpon the earth: and so the arke went vpon the vpper face of the waters.

  • Amos 9:6
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    6He buyldeth his spheres in the heauen, & hath layde the foundation of his globe of elementes on the earth: he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out vpon the open earth, the Lorde is his name.

  • Gen 1:31
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    31And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.