8 Bible Verses about Continents
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And God said, "Let the waters that are under heaven gather themselves unto one place, that the dry land may appear." And it came so to pass.
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
wherein the proud and high minded walk not, and where no lion cometh. There putteth he his hand upon the stony rocks, and overthroweth the mountains. Rivers flow out of the rocks, and look: what is pleasant, his eye seeth it.read more.
Out of drops bringeth he great floods together, and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.
"Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell plainly if thou hast understanding. Who hath measured it, knowest thou? Or, who hath spread the line upon it? Where upon stand the pillars of it? Or, who laid the corner stone?read more.
Where wast thou, when the morning stars praised me together, and all the children of God rejoiced triumphantly? Who shut the sea with doors, when it brake forth as a child out of his mother's womb? When I made the clouds to be a covering for it, and swaddled it with the dark; When I gave it my commandment, making doors and bars for it; saying, 'Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou lay down thy proud and high waves.' "Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his place, that it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the ungodly might be shaken out? Their tokens and weapons hast thou turned like clay, and set them up again as the changing of a garment. Yea, thou hast spoiled the ungodly of their light, and broken the arm of the proud. Camest thou ever into the ground of the sea: or hast thou walked in the low corners of the deep? Have the gates of death been open unto thee, or hast thou seen the door of everlasting treasure? Hast thou also perceived how broad the earth is? Now if thou hast knowledge of all,
Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth, that it never should move at any time. Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment, so that the waters stand above the hills. But at thy rebuke they flee, at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid.read more.
Then are the hills seen aloft, and the valleys beneath - in their place which thou hast appointed for them. Thou hast set them their bounds, which they may not pass, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
And Eber begat two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his time the earth was divided. And the name of his brother was Joktan.