Genesis 1:6

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Genesis 1:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

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

5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”

7 So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

8 God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

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Genesis 1:14

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

Genesis 1:20

And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:12

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Job 26:7

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

Job 26:8

He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

Job 26:13

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 37:11

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Job 37:18

can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?

Job 38:22

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

Job 38:23

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Job 38:24

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Job 38:25

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

Job 38:26

to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

Psalms 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

Psalms 33:6

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

Psalms 33:9

For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

Psalms 104:2

He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

Psalms 136:5

By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 136:6

He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalms 148:4

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

Psalms 150:1

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

Ecclesiastes 11:3

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

Jeremiah 10:10

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

Jeremiah 10:12

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Jeremiah 10:13

When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

Jeremiah 51:15

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Zechariah 12:1

This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him: