Verse 6
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
Referenced Verses
- Jer 51:15 : 15 He 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:
- Ps 104:2 : 2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
- Job 37:18 : 18 Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
- Ps 33:6 : 6 By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
- Job 26:7-8 : 7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing. 8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
- Ps 33:9 : 9 For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
- 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:
- Zech 12:1 : 1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
- Ps 19:1 : 1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
- Jer 10:12-13 : 12 He 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: 13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
- Ps 148:4 : 4 Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.
- Ps 150:1 : 1 Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
- Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
- Jer 10:10 : 10 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
- Job 38:22-26 : 22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail, 23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? 24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth? 25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm; 26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
- Job 26:13 : 13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
- Job 37:11 : 11 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
- Gen 1:14 : 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;
- Gen 1:20 : 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."
- Gen 7:11-12 : 11 In 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. 12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.