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Gen. 1:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And God saidh, Let there be a θfirmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

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Job 37:18• ¹⁸Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror? (Job 37:18)

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Gen. 1:14,20• ¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
²⁰And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens. (Gen. 1:14,20)

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Gen. 7:11‑12• ¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
¹²And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. (Gen. 7:11‑12)

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Job 26:7‑8,13• ⁷He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;
⁸He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.
¹³By his Spirit the heavens are adorned; his hand hath formed the fleeing serpent. (Job 26:7‑8,13)

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Job 37:11,18• ¹¹Also with plentiful moisture he loadeth the thick clouds, his light dispels the cloud;
¹⁸Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror? (Job 37:11,18)

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Job 38:22‑26• ²²Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,
²³Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war?
²⁴By what way is the light parted, and the east wind scattered upon the earth?
²⁵Who hath divided a channel for the rain-flood, and a way for the thunder's flash;
²⁶To cause it to rain on the earth, where no one is; on the wilderness wherein there is not a man; (Job 38:22‑26)

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Psa. 19:1• ¹To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of *God; and the expanse sheweth the work of his hands. (Psa. 19:1)

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Psa. 33:6,9• ⁶By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
⁹For *he* spoke, and it was done; *he* commanded, and it stood fast. (Psa. 33:6,9)

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Psa. 104:2• ²Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain;-- (Psa. 104:2)

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Psa. 136:5‑6• ⁵To him that by understanding made the heavens, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever;
⁶To him that stretched out the earth above the waters, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever; (Psa. 136:5‑6)

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Psa. 148:4• ⁴Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens. (Psa. 148:4)

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Psa. 150:1• ¹Hallelujah! Praise *God in his sanctuary; praise him in the firmament of his power. (Psa. 150:1)

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Eccl. 11:3• ³If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. (Eccl. 11:3)

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Jer. 10:10,12‑13• ¹⁰But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.
¹²He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
¹³When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries. (Jer. 10:10,12‑13)

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Jer. 51:15• ¹⁵He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding. (Jer. 51:15)

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Zech. 12:1• ¹The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretcheth out the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him: (Zech. 12:1)

firmament.

Heb. expansion.

• The farmer of all persons must recognize the dependence of earth upon heaven. Is there a lengthened drought? Do the crops wither in the fields? What does the farmer do? He scans the heavens earnestly to see if there are any signs of a break in the weather.... But there are spiritual needs in the souls of men. Sad indeed if the material dependence of earth upon heaven, which no skeptic can deny, leaves any with no spiritual link with Heaven. Spiritually we are as dependent upon Heaven as the earth is dependent on the heavens from a material standpoint. (“Heaven: Genesis 1:7-8” by A.J. Pollock)

• The reader may be right or wrong at any given time in the idea he attaches to what we call “firmament,” “plant,” or the like; but the truth remains unadulterated and unchanging in scripture, for us to read again and again, and to learn more perfectly. (“Genesis 1:1” by W. Kelly)

• Next day the atmospheric heavens, so essential to light, sound, and electricity, to vegetation and animal life, were called or rather recalled to their functions after that confusion which destroyed them in ways beyond our ken. Assuredly this renewal was no matter of a long age of gradual process, but a work to which God assigned a separate day, though to Him abstractedly a moment had sufficed. (“Genesis:1:6-8” by W. Kelly)

• It is now generally known, as it had long been laid down by the most competent Hebraists before modern science existed, that “expanse” is the real force of the original word, instead of “firmament” which came to us through the Latin Vulgate, as it seems due to the Greek Septuagint. (“Genesis:1:6-8” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.

W. Kelly Translation

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And God said, Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and dividing be between waters and waters.