Genesis 1:6

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Summary

Genesis 1:6

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Let there

Bible References

Let there

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for festivals and for days and years.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

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

He saturates clouds with moisture;
He scatters His lightning through them.

Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky proclaims the work of His hands.

The heavens were made by the word of the Lord,
and all the stars, by the breath of His mouth.

He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,

He made the heavens skillfully.
His love is eternal.

Praise Him, highest heavens,
and you waters above the heavens.

Hallelujah!
Praise God in His sanctuary.
Praise Him in His mighty heavens.

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain on the earth;
whether a tree falls to the south or the north,
the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

But Yahweh is the true God;
He is the living God and eternal King.
The earth quakes at His wrath,
and the nations cannot endure His rage.

He made the earth by His power,
established the world by His wisdom,
and spread out the heavens by His understanding.

An Oracle

The word of the Lord concerning Israel.
A declaration of the Lord,
who stretched out the heavens,
laid the foundation of the earth,
and formed the spirit of man within him.