'Water' in the Bible

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.”

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so.

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

God called the dry land “earth,” and He called the gathering of the water “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

But water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land.

A river went out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.

Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.

The waters surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the waters had decreased significantly.

Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down,

but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself.

When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down.

In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature.

The Angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the water well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

He made the camels kneel beside a well of water outside the town at evening. This was the time when the women went out to draw water.

I am standing here at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water.

Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I’ll also draw water for your camels until they have had enough to drink.”

She quickly emptied her jug into the trough and hurried to the well again to draw water. She drew water for all his camels

So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was brought to wash his feet and the feet of the men with him.

I am standing here at a spring. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, and I say to her: Please let me drink a little water from your jug,

and who responds to me, ‘Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels also’—let her be the woman the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.

“Before I had finished praying silently, there was Rebekah coming with her jug on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her: Please let me have a drink.

She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.

Isaac reopened the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

Then Isaac’s slaves dug in the valley and found a well of spring water there.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Quarrel because they quarreled with him.

On that same day Isaac’s slaves came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water!”

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep. The stone was then placed back on the well’s opening.

Then Jacob said, “Look, it is still broad daylight. It’s not time for the animals to be gathered. Water the flock, then go out and let them graze.”

But they replied, “We can’t until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well’s opening. Then we will water the sheep.”

He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep—in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.

Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

The steward brought the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet, and got feed for their donkeys.

Turbulent as water, you will no longer excel,because you got into your father’s bedand you defiled it—he got into my bed.