Genesis 1:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 the waves of it 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 the garment of it, Thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, 10 Marked out for it my bound, Set bars and doors, 11 And said, 'Here you may come, but no further; Here shall your proud waves 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 chambers 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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    10 God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.

    11 God 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.

    12 The 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.

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

    14 God 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;

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

    16 God 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.

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

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

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

    20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

    21 God 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.

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

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

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

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

    26 God 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 cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

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

    28 God 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."

  • Gen 1:1-8
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    1 In the beginning God{After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker.} created the heavens and the earth.

    2 Now 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

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

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

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    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;

    6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

  • 1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

  • 21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

  • 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."

  • 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

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

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

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

  • 19 Out 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.

  • 10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

  • 1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

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

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

  • 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;