8 Bible Verses about Continents

Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

He stretches the northern skies over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.

Proud beasts have never walked on it;
no lion has ever prowled over it.
The miner strikes the flint
and transforms the mountains at their foundations.
He cuts out channels in the rocks,
and his eyes spot every treasure.
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He dams up the streams from flowing
so that he may bring to light what is hidden.

Where were you when I established the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
What supports its foundations?
Or who laid its cornerstone
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while the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its blanket,
when I determined its boundaries
and put its bars and doors in place,
when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”? Have you ever in your life commanded the morning
or assigned the dawn its place,
so it may seize the edges of the earth
and shake the wicked out of it?
The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;
its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
Light is withheld from the wicked,
and the arm raised in violence is broken. Have you traveled to the sources of the sea
or walked in the depths of the oceans?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.

The sea is His; He made it.
His hands formed the dry land.

He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be shaken.
You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
At Your rebuke the waters fled;
at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
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mountains rose and valleys sank—
to the place You established for them.
You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.

for He laid its foundation on the seas
and established it on the rivers.

Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg, for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.