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 heavens to separate the day from the night. Let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

He stretches out the northern sky over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

He loads the thick cloud with moisture and disperses with lighting.

Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail?

([Psalm of David]) The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made.

The heavens were made by the word of Jehovah, and by the breath of his mouth their entire host.

You cover yourself with light as with a cloak. You stretch out clouds in the sky like a curtain.

To the one who made the heavens with skill. His loving kindness is everlasting.

Praise him, you highest heaven and the water above the sky.

Praise Jehovah! Praise God in his holy place. Praise him in his mighty heavens.

If the clouds are full of rain they empty themselves upon the earth. If the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.

Jehovah is the true (faithful) (right) God! He is the living God and the everlasting king. The earth quakes at his wrath. The nations cannot endure his indignation.

Jehovah made the earth by his power. By his wisdom he created the world and stretched out the heavens.

The prophetic utterance of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Jehovah declared: Who stretches forth the heavens? Who lays the foundation of the earth? Who forms the spirit of man within him?