Genesis 1:9 - The Scriptures 1998

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

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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 Elohim called the expanse ‘heavens.’ And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the second day.

Nehemiah 9:6

“You are יהוה, You alone. You have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that are on it, the seas and all that are in them, and You give life to them all. And the host of the heavens are bowing themselves to You.

Job 26:10

He drew a limit on the surface of the waters, at the boundary of light and darkness.

Job 26:7

He it was who stretched out the north over emptiness, hanging the earth upon space,

Psalm 104:3

Who is laying the beams of His upper rooms in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on the wings of the wind,

Psalm 33:7

Gathering the waters of the sea together as a heap; Laying up the deep in storehouses.

Psalm 95:5

His is the sea, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea never overflows. To the place from which the rivers come, there they return again.

Jeremiah 5:22

‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares יהוה. ‘Do you not tremble at My presence, who have placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, by an everlasting law, and it does not pass over it? Though its waves toss to and fro, they are not able; though they roar, they do not pass over it.

Jonah 1:9

And he said to them, “I am a Heḇ

2 Peter 3:5

For they choose to have this hidden from them: that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by the Word of Elohim,

Revelation 10:6

and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created the heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there shall be no further delay,