Genesis 1:8-14

The Creation of the World

8 And God called the expanse Heaven. 1 And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

9 And God said, g "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, 2 and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, h "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants 3 yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for i signs and for j seasons, 4 and for days and years,

  1. Cross References
    Job 38:8 - 11
    Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb.
    Psalms 33:7
    He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.
    Psalms 136:6
    To him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever.
    Jeremiah 5:22
    Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
    2 Peter 3:5
    For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 104:14
    You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 10:2
    Thus says the Lord : "Learn not the way of the ...
    Ezekiel 32:7 - 8
    When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens a...
    Joel 2:30 - 31
    And I will show wonders in the heavens and on t...
    Joel 3:15
    The sun and the moon are darkened, and the star...
    Matthew 24:29
    Immediately after the tribulation of those days...
    Luke 21:25
    And there will be signs in sun and moon and sta...
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 104:19
    He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.
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