Genesis 1:6

New English Translation

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.

Cross References

Genesis 1:14

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

Genesis 1:20

God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

Job 26:13

By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 37:11

He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

Job 37:18

will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

Psalm 104:2

He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

Psalm 148:4

Praise him, O highest heaven, and you waters above the sky!

Psalm 150:1

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in the sky, which testifies to his strength!

Psalm 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork.

Psalm 19:2

Day after day it speaks out; night after night it reveals his greatness.

Psalm 33:6

By the Lord’s decree the heavens were made; by a mere word from his mouth all the stars in the sky were created.

Psalm 33:9

For he spoke, and it came into existence, he issued the decree, and it stood firm.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth, and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.

Isaiah 40:22

He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.

Jeremiah 10:10

The Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.

Jeremiah 51:15

He is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom fixed the world in place, by his understanding he spread out the heavens.

Zechariah 12:1

The revelation of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: The Lord – he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person – says,

2 Peter 3:5

For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.