Genesis 1:9

New Living Translation

Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.

Cross References

Genesis 1:8

God called the space “sky.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.

Nehemiah 9:6

“You alone are the Lord. You made the skies and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and the seas and everything in them. You preserve them all, and the angels of heaven worship you.

Job 26:10

He created the horizon when he separated the waters; he set the boundary between day and night.

Job 26:7

God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.

Psalm 104:3

you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wings of the wind.

Psalm 33:7

He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs.

Psalm 95:5

The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea.

Jeremiah 5:22

Have you no respect for me? Why don’t you tremble in my presence? I, the Lord, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross. The waves may toss and roar, but they can never pass the boundaries I set.

Jonah 1:9

Jonah answered, “I am a Hebrew, and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.”

2 Peter 3:5

They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water.

Revelation 10:6

He swore an oath in the name of the one who lives forever and ever, who created the heavens and everything in them, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it. He said, “There will be no more delay.