Genesis 1:9 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

More versions

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected into one place [of standing], and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Common English Bible

⁹ God said, “Let the waters under the sky come together into one place so that the dry land can appear.” And that’s what happened.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Truly God said: "Let the waters that are under heaven be gathered together into one place; and let the dry land appear." And so it became.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.

English Standard Version 2016

⁹ And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:9 Cross References

Genesis 1:8

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Nehemiah 9:6

Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

Job 26:10

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, Until the day and night come to an end.

Job 26:7

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Psalm 104:3

Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: Who maketh the clouds his chariot: Who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

Psalm 33:7

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: He layeth up the depth in storehouses.

Psalm 95:5

The sea is his, and he made it: And his hands formed the dry land.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

Jeremiah 5:22

Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Jonah 1:9

And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

2 Peter 3:5

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

Revelation 10:6

and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: