Genesis 1:8

World English Bible (2000)

God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

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  • Gen 1:5 : 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
  • Gen 1:19 : 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

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  • Gen 1:1-7
    7 verses
    86%

    1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

    3God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

    4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

    5God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

    6God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

    7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

  • Gen 1:9-24
    16 verses
    82%

    9God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

    10God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

    11God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

    12The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and 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 sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

    15and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

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

    17God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

    18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide 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 waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

    21God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

    22God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

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

    24God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

  • Gen 2:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.

    2On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

    3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

    4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

  • Ps 19:1-2
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    1The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

    2Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

  • 31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

  • Gen 8:14-15
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    14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

    15God spoke to Noah, saying,

  • 6but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

  • Gen 1:26-27
    2 verses
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    26God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

    27God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

  • 6By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.

  • 2The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

  • 19Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

  • 11for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

  • 28when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

  • 2He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name "Adam," in the day when they were created.

  • 8He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

  • 10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

  • 5For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

  • 8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

  • 11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

  • 12He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens: