Genesis 1:9

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God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

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  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 “You should fear me!” says the LORD.“You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”
  • Ps 95:5 : 5 The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 “Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb, 9 when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors, 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
  • Ps 24:1-2 : 1 A psalm of David. The LORD owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it. 2 For he set its foundation upon the seas, and established it upon the ocean currents.
  • Ps 136:5-6 : 5 to the one who used wisdom to make the heavens, for his loyal love endures, 6 to the one who spread out the earth over the water, for his loyal love endures,
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep, 29 when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
  • Eccl 1:7 : 7 All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.
  • Jonah 1:9 : 9 He said to them,“I am a Hebrew! And I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
  • Rev 10:6 : 6 and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it,“There will be no more delay!
  • Ps 104:5-9 : 5 He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be moved. 6 The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains. 7 Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off– 8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them. 9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
  • Ps 104:3 : 3 and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.
  • Job 26:7 : 7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.

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    10God called the dry ground“land” and the gathered waters he called“seas.” God saw that it was good.

    11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.

    12The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

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

    14God said,“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

    15and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

    16God made two great lights– the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

    17God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,

    18to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

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

    20God said,“Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

    21God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

    22God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

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

    24God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

    25God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

    26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

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    3God said,“Let there be light.” And there was light!

    4God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

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