Genesis 1:9

The Creation of the World

9 Then God said, l "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and m let the dry land appear"; and it was so.

  1. Cross References
    Job 26:10
    He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, At the boundary of light and darkness.
    Psalms 104:6 - 9
    You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.
    Proverbs 8:29
    When He assigned to the sea its limit, So that the waters would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth.
    Jeremiah 5:22
    Do you not fear Me?' says the LORD. 'Will you not tremble at My presence, Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, Yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.
    2 Peter 3:5
    For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 24:1
    The earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.
    Psalms 24:2
    For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the waters.
    Psalms 33:7
    He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses.
    Psalms 95:5
    The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.
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