Genesis 1:6-8

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6} Then God said, “Let there be an expanse^(a) between the waters, separating water from water.”^(A) ^{Tools
7} So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse.^(B) And it was so. ^{Tools
8} God called the expanse “sky.”^(b) Evening came and then morning: the second day.

Footnotes:

a. Genesis 1:6: The Hb word for expanse is from a root meaning “to spread out, stamp, beat firmly,” which suggests something like a dome; Jb 37:16-18; Is 40:22.

b. Genesis 1:8: Or “heavens”

Cross references:

A. Genesis 1:6: Isaiah 44:24; Jeremiah 10:12

B. Genesis 1:7: Psalm 148:4