Genesis 1:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 For 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;
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'
  • Ps 95:5 : 5 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb, 9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, 10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, 11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
  • Ps 24:1-2 : 1 The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. 2 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
  • Ps 136:5-6 : 5 To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever: 6 To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, 29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
  • Eccl 1:7 : 7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
  • Jonah 1:9 : 9 He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
  • Rev 10:6 : 6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,
  • Ps 104:5-9 : 5 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. 6 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. 8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them. 9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
  • Ps 104:3 : 3 He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
  • Job 26:7 : 7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

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  • Gen 1:10-28
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    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.

    25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

    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.

    28God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

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    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.

    8God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

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    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.

  • Gen 8:13-15
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    13It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

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

    15God spoke to Noah, saying,

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

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    5The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

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    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;

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

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    23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

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    1God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

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

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    19The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

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    29when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;