Genesis 1:7 - Plain English Version

⁷ So God made the sky to split the water in half. God left some of the water up high, and he left some of it on the ground, and he put the sky in the middle.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And God made the firmament [the expanse] and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it was so.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Common English Bible

⁷ God made the dome and separated the waters under the dome from the waters above the dome. And it happened in that way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And God made a firmament, and he divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament. And so it became.

Genesis 1:7 Cross References

Genesis 1:11

Then God said, “I want the land to grow all sorts of plants on the earth. I want plants with seeds, and trees with fruit that have seeds inside.” And God made it happen.

Genesis 1:15

I will put these lights in the sky to shine on the earth.” So God did that.

Genesis 1:24

Then God said, “I want the land to be full of all different sorts of animals. I want animals that are wild, and animals that are not wild. I want lizards, and insects, and other things that crawl around on the ground.” And God made it happen just like that.

Genesis 1:8

And when God made it, he called it sky. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 2.

Genesis 1:9

Then God said, “I want all the water that is on the ground to come together to one place, and I want dry ground to come up.” Then the water moved to the places where God wanted it, and the dry ground came up.