Genesis 1:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

And God made the sky and separated the waters which were under the sky from the waters which were above the sky; and it was so.

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  • Ps 148:4 : 4 Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters above the heavens.
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 When he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not go beyond his command; when he appointed the foundations of the earth,
  • Eccl 11:3 : 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if the tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.
  • Gen 1:9 : 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.
  • Gen 1:11 : 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so.
  • Gen 1:15 : 15 And let them be for lights in the sky of the heavens to give light upon the earth; and it was so.
  • Gen 1:24 : 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind; and it was so.
  • Job 26:8 : 8 He binds up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or who closed up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, 10 And fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors, 11 And said, This far you shall come, but no further; and here shall your proud waves be stopped?
  • Ps 104:10 : 10 He sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.

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    1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

    2And the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.

    3And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

    4And God saw the light, that it was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

    5And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

    6And God said, Let there be a sky in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.

  • Gen 1:8-11
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    8And God called the sky Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.

    10And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathered waters He called Seas; and God saw that it was good.

    11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so.

  • Gen 1:13-23
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    13And the evening and the morning were the third day.

    14And God said, Let there be lights in the sky of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.

    15And let them be for lights in the sky of the heavens to give light upon the earth; and it was so.

    16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; He made the stars also.

    17And God set them in the sky of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

    18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

    19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

    20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and birds that may fly above the earth in the open sky of heaven.

    21And God created great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

    22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

    23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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    4These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

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    28When he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep,

  • Gen 7:10-12
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    10And it occurred after seven days that the floodwaters were upon the earth.

    11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of heaven were opened.

    12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

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    2The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

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    17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth.

    18And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark moved on the surface of the waters.

    19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered.

    20The waters covered them fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

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    1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host.

  • Ps 33:6-7
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    6By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

    7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; he lays up the depths in storehouses.

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    5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens existed of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

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    1The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork.

  • Gen 1:26-27
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    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

    27So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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    6But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

  • Ps 148:4
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    4Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters above the heavens.

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    14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

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    22And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the color of an awesome crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

  • Exod 14:21
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    21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

  • Job 26:10
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    10He has encircled the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

  • Ps 78:13
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    13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.

  • Ezek 1:25
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    25And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

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    6You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.