Genesis 1:6

Revised Standard Version CI

And God said, “Let there be a firmament 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 firmament of the heavens 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 firmament of the heavens.”

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

who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched 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 forth.

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if 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 dwell 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 spirit of man within him:

2 Peter 3:5

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water,