Genesis 1:6 - Plain English Version

⁶ Then God said, “I want something to split the water in half.”

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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."

Genesis 1:6 Cross References

Genesis 1:14

Then God said, “I want some lights in the sky. I want the lights to split up the day time from the night time. They will show the time. They will show the season, and the time of the year, and the time of day.

Genesis 1:20

Then God said, “I want the water to be full of fish and all sorts of living things. And I want birds that fly around in the sky, above the earth.”

2 Peter 3:5

Those people know the true story, but they don’t want to remember it. They forget that God does lots of powerful things in this world. They forget that a long time ago, God only said words to make the sky and the earth. God said one word to make the sky, and then he said another word to make the land, and to lift that land up out of the water.