Genesis 1:6 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament [the expanse of the sky] in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters [below] from the waters [above].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁶ God said, “Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters to separate the waters from each other.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ God also said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters."

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

Genesis 1:6 Cross References

Genesis 1:14

And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

Genesis 1:20

God also said: Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven.

Job 26:13

His spirit hath adorned the heavens: and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.

Job 37:11

Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:

Job 37:18

Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.

Psalm 104:2

Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.

Psalm 148:4

Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens

Psalm 150:1

Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power.

Psalm 19:1

Unto the end. A psalm for David.

Psalm 19:2

May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.

Psalm 33:6

Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.

Psalm 33:9

O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds be full, they will pour out rain upon the earth. If the tree fall to the south, or to the north, in what place soever it shall fall, there shall it be.

Isaiah 40:22

It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God and the everlasting king. At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.

Jeremiah 51:15

He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding:

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:

2 Peter 3:5

For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God.