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Genesis 1:6
6Then God said, ‘A wide space will appear between the waters. So the waters will be in two separate places.’
Genesis 1:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
- New International Version (NIV)And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Context of Genesis 1:6
4God saw that the light was good. He caused the light and the dark to be separate. 5God called the light ‘day’. He called the dark ‘night’. Evening passed and then it was morning. That was the first day. Then God said, ‘A wide space will appear between the waters. So the waters will be in two separate places.’ 7So God made this wide space. He made the water under the space separate from the water that was above it. What God said happened. 8God called the wide space ‘sky’. Evening passed and then it was morning. That was the second day.
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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים יְהִ֥י רָקִ֖יעַ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַמָּ֑יִם וִיהִ֣י מַבְדִּ֔יל בֵּ֥ין מַ֖יִם לָמָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Genesis 1:6
- Genesis 1:14God said, ‘There will be lights all across the sky. They will make the day different from the night. They will show the seasons, days and years.
- Genesis 7:11When Noah was 600 years old, on the 17th day of the second month, streams of water came up everywhere from below the earth. Also, the water in the heavens poured down on the earth.
- Job 26:7He puts the skies in their place in the north, so that they cover empty space. He hangs the earth in the skies and it stays there.
- Job 37:11He fills the clouds with lots of water. He sends the lightning through the clouds.
- Job 38:22Have you visited the place where I keep all the snow? Or the place where I keep the hail?
- Psalms 19:1The heavens show us how great God is. The sky above shows his good work.
- Psalms 33:6The word of the Lord made the heavens. When he spoke, all the stars in the sky appeared.
- Psalms 104:2Light is all round you, like the clothes that you wear. You have put the skies as a roof over the earth.
- Psalms 148:4Praise him, skies above, and the water above the sky.
- Psalms 150:1Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Praise God in his temple. Praise him high in the sky, where he shows his great strength.
- Ecclesiastes 11:3When clouds are full of water, rain will fall on the earth. If a tree falls to the ground, it will stay there, in the same place.
- Jeremiah 10:10But the Lord is the only true God. He is the God who is alive. He is the King who rules for ever. When he is angry, the earth shakes. None of the nations can stop his anger.
- Jeremiah 51:15The Lord used his power to make the earth. He used his wisdom to make it strong. He knew how to put the sky to cover the earth.
- Zechariah 12:1This is the Lord's message about Israel. The Lord made the skies and the whole wide earth. He makes men and women.
Commentaries on Genesis 1:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6And God said, Let there be a firmament - Our translators, by following the firmamentum of the Vulgate, which is a translation of the of the Septuagint, have deprived this passage of all sense and meaning. The Hebrew word רקיע rakia, from רקע raka, to spread out as the curtains of a tent or pavilion, simply signifies an expanse or space, and consequently that circumambient space or expansion separating the clouds, which are in the higher regions of it…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6-8Verses 6-8 - IV. The Second Day 6. רקיע rāqı̂ya‛ “expanse;” ́ stereōma רקע rāqa‛ “spread out by beating, as leaf gold.” This expanse was not understood to be solid, as the fowl is said to fly on the face of it Genesis 1:21. It is also described as luminous Daniel 12:3, and as a monument of divine power Psalm 150:1. 7. עשׂה ‛āśâh “work on,” “make out of already existing materials.” The second act of creative power bears upon the deep of waters, over…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-13Verses 6-13 The earth was emptiness, but by a word spoken, it became full of God's riches, and his they are still. Though the use of them is allowed to man, they are from God, and to his service and honour they must be used. The earth, at his command, brings forth grass, herbs, and fruits. God must have the glory of all the benefit we receive from the produce of the earth. If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-8The creation story describes how things appear from a human perspective. The sky looks like a shiny dome separating two groups of water (see Job 37:18; Ezekiel 1:22). In the ancient Near East, people understood the universe to have three levels, with rain coming from the highest level (see Genesis 7:11–12 and study note).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-86. firmament--an expanse--a beating out as a plate of metal: a name given to the atmosphere from its appearing to an observer to be the vault of heaven, supporting the weight of the watery clouds. By the creation of an atmosphere, the lighter parts of the waters which overspread the earth's surface were drawn up and suspended in the visible heavens, while the larger and heavier mass remained below. The air was thus "in the midst of the waters," that is…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Genesis 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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