Genesis 1:9 - Plain English Version

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.

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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.

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.

Genesis 1:9 Cross References

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.

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.