Genesis 1:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

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  • Jer 51:15 : 15 The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 Covering himself `with' light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,
  • Job 37:18 : 18 Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!
  • Ps 33:6 : 6 By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.
  • Job 26:7-8 : 7 Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing, 8 Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.
  • Ps 33:9 : 9 For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.
  • Ps 136:5-6 : 5 To Him making the heavens by understanding, For to the age `is' His kindness. 6 To Him spreading the earth over the waters, For to the age `is' His kindness.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.
  • Ps 19:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. The heavens `are' recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse `is' declaring.
  • Jer 10:12-13 : 12 The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens, 13 At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters `is' in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And bringeth out wind from His treasures.
  • Ps 148:4 : 4 Praise ye Him, heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.
  • Ps 150:1 : 1 Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength.
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the thick clouds are full of rain, On the earth they empty `themselves'; And if a tree doth fall in the south or to the north, The place where the tree falleth, there it is.
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 And Jehovah `is' a God of truth, He `is' a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.
  • Job 38:22-26 : 22 Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see? 23 That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle. 24 Where `is' this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth. 25 Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices? 26 To cause `it' to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it.
  • Job 26:13 : 13 By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.
  • Job 37:11 : 11 Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.
  • Gen 1:14 : 14 And God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,
  • Gen 1:20 : 20 And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'
  • Gen 7:11-12 : 11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened, 12 and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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  • Gen 1:7-11
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    7And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which `are' under the expanse, and the waters which `are' above the expanse: and it is so.

    8And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.

    9And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

    10And God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called `Seas;' and God seeth that `it is' good.

    11And God saith, `Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed `is' in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.

  • Gen 1:13-24
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    13and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day third.

    14And God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,

    15and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so.

    16And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of the night;

    17and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

    18and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that `it is' good;

    19and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fourth.

    20And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'

    21And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that `it is' good.

    22And God blesseth them, saying, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'

    23and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fifth.

    24And God saith, `Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so.

  • Gen 1:1-5
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    1In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

    2the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness `is' on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

    3and God saith, `Let light be;' and light is.

    4And God seeth the light that `it is' good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

    5and God calleth to the light `Day,' and to the darkness He hath called `Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day one.

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

    27And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

    28And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

  • Gen 2:4
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    4These `are' births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

    6through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;

  • Ps 33:6-7
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    6By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

    7Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.

  • Ps 19:1
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    1To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. The heavens `are' recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse `is' declaring.

  • Prov 8:28
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    28In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,

  • Gen 8:2
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    2and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

  • Job 26:10
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    10A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

  • Ps 148:4
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    4Praise ye Him, heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.

  • Jer 51:16
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    16At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters `are' in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And He bringeth out wind from His treasures.

  • Gen 7:10
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    10And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

  • Gen 2:1
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    1And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

  • Ezek 1:25
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    25And there is a voice from above the expanse, that `is' above their head: in their standing they let fall their wings.

  • Exod 14:21
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    21And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the sea, and Jehovah causeth the sea to go on by a strong east wind all the night, and maketh the sea become dry ground, and the waters are cleaved,

  • Ps 104:6
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    6The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

  • Gen 8:15
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    15And God speaketh unto Noah, saying, `Go out from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee;

  • Ezek 1:22
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    22And a likeness `is' over the heads of the living creatures of an expanse, as the colour of the fearful ice, stretched out over their heads from above.

  • Gen 7:18
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    18and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.

  • Amos 9:6
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    6Who is building in the heavens His upper chambers; As to His troop, Upon earth He hath founded it, Who is calling for the waters of the sea, And poureth them out on the face of the land, Jehovah `is' His name.

  • Gen 1:31
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    31And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day the sixth.