Genesis 1:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:14

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

Genesis 1:20

And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.”

Job 26:13

By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Job 37:11

He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

Job 37:18

Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?

Psalm 104:2

wrapped in light as with a garment. You stretch out the heavens like a tent;

Psalm 148:4

Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the heavens!

Psalm 150:1

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty firmament!

Psalm 19:1

The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.

Psalm 19:2

Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made and all their host by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:9

for he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

When clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Isaiah 40:22

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

Jeremiah 51:15

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Zechariah 12:1

An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:

2 Peter 3:5

They deliberately ignore 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,