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and it was so. <a href="/nasb_/genesis/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. <a href="/nasb/genesis/1.htm">NASB 1995</a> Then God said, &#8220Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. <a href="/nasb77/genesis/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. <a href="/lsb/genesis/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. <a href="/amp/genesis/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. <a href="/csb/genesis/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. <a href="/hcsb/genesis/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Then God said, &#8220Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.&#8221 And it was so. <a href="/asv/genesis/1.htm">American Standard Version</a> And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. <a href="/cev/genesis/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> God said, "I command the water under the sky to come together in one place, so there will be dry ground." And that's what happened. <a href="/erv/genesis/1.htm">English Revised Version</a> And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. <a href="/gwt/genesis/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Then God said, "Let the water under the sky come together in one area, and let the dry land appear." And so it was. <a href="/gnt/genesis/1.htm">Good News Translation</a> Then God commanded, "Let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear"--and it was done. <a href="/isv/genesis/1.htm">International Standard Version</a> Then God said, "Let the water beneath the sky come together into one area, and let dry ground appear!" And that is what happened: <a href="/msb/genesis/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> And God said, ?Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.? And it was so. <a href="/net/genesis/1.htm">NET Bible</a> God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so. <a href="/nheb/genesis/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered to one gathering, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. And the waters under the sky gathered to their gatherings, and the dry land appeared. <a href="/wbt/genesis/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. <a href="/web/genesis/1.htm">World English Bible</a> God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/genesis/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And God says, “Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land be seen”: and it is so. <a href="/ylt/genesis/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And God saith, 'Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so. <a href="/slt/genesis/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And God will say the waters shall be gathered together from the under part of the heavens to one place, and the dry shall be seen: and it shall be so.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/genesis/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done. <a href="/cpdv/genesis/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Truly God said: “Let the waters that are under heaven be gathered together into one place; and let the dry land appear.” And so it became. <a href="/nabre/genesis/1.htm">New American Bible</a> Then God said: Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear. And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared. <a href="/nrsvce/genesis/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/genesis/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And God said, Let the waters that are under the sky be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. <a href="/hpbt/genesis/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And God said, “The waters shall be gathered that are lower than Heaven to one region, and the dried land shall appear”, and it was in this way.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/genesis/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. <a href="/sep/genesis/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared. <a href="/parallel/genesis/1-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=59" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/genesis/1.htm">The Third Day</a> …8God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. 9<a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hîm (N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">And God</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: way·yō·mer (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">said,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4325.htm" title="4325: ham·ma·yim (Art:: N-mp) -- Waters, water. Dual of a primitive noun; water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen.">“Let the waters</a> <a href="/hebrew/8478.htm" title="8478: mit·ta·ḥaṯ (Prep-m) -- Underneath, below, instead of. From the same as Towach; the bottom; only adverbially, below, in lieu of, etc.">under</a> <a href="/hebrew/8064.htm" title="8064: haš·šā·ma·yim (Art:: N-mp) -- Heaven, sky. Dual of an unused singular shameh; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky.">the sky</a> <a href="/hebrew/6960.htm" title="6960: yiq·qā·wū (V-Nifal-Imperf-3mp) -- To bind together, collect, to expect. A primitive root; to bind together, i.e. Collect; to expect.">be gathered</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">into</a> <a href="/hebrew/259.htm" title="259: ’e·ḥāḏ (Number-ms) -- One. A numeral from 'achad; properly, united, i.e. One; or first.">one</a> <a href="/hebrew/4725.htm" title="4725: mā·qō·wm (N-ms) -- Or maqom; also mqowmah; or mqomah; from quwm; properly, a standing, i.e. A spot; but used widely of a locality; also of a condition.">place,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3004.htm" title="3004: hay·yab·bā·šāh (Art:: N-fs) -- Dry land, dry ground. From yabesh; dry ground.">so that the dry land</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: wə·ṯê·rā·’eh (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConjImperf-3fs) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">may appear.”</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: way·hî- (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">And it was</a> <a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: ḵên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">so.</a> 10God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/psalms/104-6.htm">Psalm 104:6-9</a> You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. / At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away— / the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them— ... <a href="/job/38-8.htm">Job 38:8-11</a> Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, / when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket, / when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors, ... <a href="/2_peter/3-5.htm">2 Peter 3:5</a> But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water, <a href="/jeremiah/5-22.htm">Jeremiah 5:22</a> Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it. <a href="/proverbs/8-27.htm">Proverbs 8:27-29</a> I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, / when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth, / when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth. <a href="/exodus/20-11.htm">Exodus 20:11</a> For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy. <a href="/isaiah/45-18.htm">Isaiah 45:18</a> For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other. <a href="/psalms/33-7.htm">Psalm 33:7</a> He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses. <a href="/psalms/136-6.htm">Psalm 136:6</a> He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever. <a href="/job/26-10.htm">Job 26:10</a> He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. <a href="/hebrews/11-3.htm">Hebrews 11:3</a> By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. <a href="/john/1-3.htm">John 1:3</a> Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. <a href="/colossians/1-16.htm">Colossians 1:16-17</a> For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. / He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. <a href="/revelation/4-11.htm">Revelation 4:11</a> “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.” <a href="/nehemiah/9-6.htm">Nehemiah 9:6</a> You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.<a href="/job/26-7.htm">Job 26:7,10</a> He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing… <a href="/job/38-8.htm">Job 38:8-11</a> Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? … <a href="/psalms/24-1.htm">Psalm 24:1,2</a> A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/revelation/3-18.htm">Appear</a> <a href="/genesis/1-7.htm">Below</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-8.htm">Collected</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-24.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/revelation/19-19.htm">Gathered</a> <a href="/revelation/18-8.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/genesis/1-8.htm">Heaven</a> <a href="/genesis/1-8.htm">Heavens</a> <a href="/genesis/1-8.htm">Sky</a> <a href="/revelation/20-8.htm">Together</a> <a href="/genesis/1-7.htm">Water</a> <a href="/genesis/1-7.htm">Waters</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/27-12.htm">Appear</a> <a href="/genesis/35-8.htm">Below</a> <a href="/genesis/29-7.htm">Collected</a> <a href="/genesis/1-10.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/genesis/1-10.htm">Gathered</a> <a href="/genesis/1-10.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/genesis/1-14.htm">Heaven</a> <a href="/genesis/1-14.htm">Heavens</a> <a href="/genesis/1-14.htm">Sky</a> <a href="/genesis/1-10.htm">Together</a> <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Water</a> <a href="/genesis/1-10.htm">Waters</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 1</div>1. <a href="/genesis/1-1.htm">God creates heaven and earth;</a> 3. <a href="/genesis/1-3.htm">the light;</a> 6. <a href="/genesis/1-6.htm">the firmament;</a> 9. <a href="/genesis/1-9.htm">separates the dry land;</a> 14. <a href="/genesis/1-14.htm">forms the sun, moon, and stars;</a> 20. <a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">fishes and fowls;</a> 24. <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">cattle, wild beasts, and creeping things;</a> 26. <a href="/genesis/1-26.htm">creates man in his own image, blesses him;</a> 29. <a href="/genesis/1-29.htm">grants the fruits of the earth for food.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/1.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/genesis/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/genesis/1.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>And God said, This phrase emphasizes the power and authority of God's word in creation. Throughout <a href="/genesis/1.htm">Genesis 1</a>, God's spoken word is the means by which creation comes into existence. This reflects the concept of divine fiat, where God's will is enacted through His speech. It underscores the theme of God's sovereignty and the effectiveness of His commands, a theme echoed in passages like <a href="/psalms/33-9.htm">Psalm 33:9</a>, "For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm."“Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, This command indicates a separation and organization of the chaotic waters, a common motif in ancient Near Eastern creation narratives. The gathering of waters suggests the establishment of order from chaos, a theme that resonates with the idea of God bringing structure to the universe. Geographically, this could be seen as the formation of seas and oceans, a crucial step in preparing the earth for habitation. Theologically, it reflects God's control over the natural world, a concept also seen in Jesus calming the storm in <a href="/mark/4-39.htm">Mark 4:39</a>.so that the dry land may appear.” The emergence of dry land is a significant moment in the creation narrative, as it sets the stage for the creation of plant life and eventually animals and humans. This phrase highlights the intentionality and purpose in God's creative acts. The appearance of dry land can be seen as a type of resurrection, where life emerges from the waters, prefiguring the resurrection of Christ and the new creation. It also connects to the Israelites' crossing of the Red Sea, where dry land appears as a means of salvation (<a href="/exodus/14-21.htm">Exodus 14:21-22</a>).And it was so. This statement confirms the fulfillment of God's command, emphasizing the certainty and reliability of His word. It serves as a refrain throughout the creation account, reinforcing the idea that God's will is accomplished without hindrance. This phrase assures believers of the trustworthiness of God's promises, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/55-11.htm">Isaiah 55:11</a>, where God's word is described as achieving the purpose for which it is sent.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The Creator, who speaks creation into existence. His authority and power are evident as He commands the formation of the earth. 2. <a href="/topical/w/waters.htm">Waters</a> Refers to the primordial waters that covered the earth. In this verse, they are gathered to reveal dry land. 3. <a href="/topical/d/dry_land.htm">Dry Land</a> The earth's surface that appears as the waters are gathered. This marks the preparation of the earth for habitation. 4. <a href="/topical/h/heavens.htm">Heavens</a> The expanse above the earth, under which the waters are gathered. 5. <a href="/topical/c/creation_event.htm">Creation Event</a> The third day of creation, where God organizes the earth's surface, setting the stage for life.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a> Recognize God's ultimate authority in creation. He commands, and it is so, demonstrating His control over all things. <a href="/topical/o/order_from_chaos.htm">Order from Chaos</a> God brings order to the chaotic waters, a reminder that He can bring order to the chaos in our lives. <a href="/topical/p/preparation_for_life.htm">Preparation for Life</a> The appearance of dry land is a preparatory act for the creation of life, teaching us that God prepares the way for His purposes. <a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_plan.htm">Trust in God's Plan</a> Just as God had a plan for creation, He has a plan for our lives. Trust in His timing and purpose. <a href="/topical/e/environmental_stewardship.htm">Environmental Stewardship</a> As God organized the earth, we are called to steward His creation responsibly.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_genesis_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Genesis 1</a> <a href="/q/what_did_god_create_on_day_three.htm">What did God create on day three?</a> <a href="/q/what_are_genesis_1's_creation_days.htm">What are Genesis 1's creation days?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_earth's_creation.htm">What does the Bible say about Earth's formation events?</a> <a href="/q/does_the_bible_support_boundaries.htm">Are boundaries supported by biblical teachings?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) Let the waters be gathered together.--The verb, as Gesenius shows, refers rather to the condensation of water, which, as we have seen, was impossible till the surface of the earth was made cool by the radiation of heat into the open expanse around it.Unto one place.--The ocean bed. We must add the vast depth of the ocean to the height of the mountains before we can rightly estimate the intensity of the forces at work on the third day. Vast, too, as the surface of the ocean may appear compared with the dry land, it is evidently only just sufficient to supply the rain necessary for vegetation. Were it less, either the laws of evaporation must be altered, with painful and injurious effects, or much of the earth's surface would be barren.Let the dry land appear.--Simple as this might appear, it yet required special provision on the part of the Creator; for otherwise the various materials of the earth would have arranged themselves in concentric strata, according to their density, and upon them the water would have reposed evenly, and above it the air. But geologists tell us that these strata have been broken up and distorted from below by volcanic agencies, while the surface has been furrowed and worn by the denuding power of water. This was the third day's work. By the cooling of the crust of the earth the vast mass of waters, which now covers two-thirds of its surface, and which hitherto had existed only as vapour, began to condense, and pour down upon the earth as rain. Meanwhile the earth parted with its internal heat but slowly, and thus, while its crust grew stiff, there was within a mass of molten fluid. As this would be acted upon by the gravity of the sun and moon, in just the same way as the ocean is now, this inner tidal wave would rupture the thin crust above, generally in lines trending from northeast to south-west. Hence mountain ranges and deep sea beds, modified by many changes since, but all having the same final object of providing dry land for man's abode.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 9. - Day three. The distribution of land and water and the production of vegetation on this day engaged the formative energy of the word of Elohim. And God said, Let the waters under heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear. To explain the second part of this phenomenon as a consequence of the first, the disclosure of the solid ground by the retirement of the waters from its surface, and not rather vice versa, is to reverse the ordinary processes of nature. Modern analogy suggests that the breaking up of the hitherto universal ocean into seas, lakes, and rivers was effected by the upheaval of the land through the action of subterranean fires, or the subsidence of the earth's crust in consequence of the cooling and shrinking of the interior mass. <a href="/psalms/104-7.htm">Psalm 104:7</a> hints at electric agency in connection with the elevation of the mountains and the sinking of the ocean beds. "At thy rebuke they (the waters) fled: at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away (were scattered). The mountains rose, the valleys sank (ἀναβαίνουσιν ὄρη καὶ καταβαίνουσι πεδία ( LXX.; ascendunt montes, et descendunt campi - Jerome) to the place which thou hadst established for them" (Perowne). The gathering of the waters into one place implies no more than that they were, from this day forward, to be collected into one vast body, and restrained within bounds in a place by themselves, so as to admit of the exposure of the earth's soil. The "place founded for them" was, of course, the depths and hollows in the earth's crust, into which they were immediately withdrawn, not through direct supernatural agency, but by their own natural gravitation. The configuration of the dry land is not described; but there is reason to believe that the original distribution of land and water was the same, or nearly the same, as it is at present. Physical geographers have observed that the coast lines of the great continents and the mountain ranges generally run from north-east to south-west, and that these lines are in reality parts of great circles, tangent to the polar circle, and at right angles to a line drawn from the sun's center to the moon's, when these bodies are either in conjunction or in opposition. These circles, it has further been remarked, are "the lines on which the thin crust of a cooling globe would be most likely to be ruptured by its internal tidal wave." Hence, though considerably modified by the mighty revolutions through which at successive periods the earth has passed, "these, with certain subordinate lines of fracture, have determined the forms of continents from the beginning" (Dawson, 'O.W.,' p. 184; cf. 'Green's Geology,' p. 512). And it was so. Though the separation of the dry land from the waters and the distribution of both were effected by Divine agency, nothing in the Mosaic narrative obliges us to think that these works were instantaneously completed. "There is truly no difficulty in supposing that the formation of the hills kept on through the succeeding creative days" (Lange). "Generally the works of the single creative days consist only in laying foundations; the birth process that is introduced in each extends its efficacy be, yond it" (Delitzsch). "Not how long, but how many times, God created is the thing intended to be set forth" by the creative days (Hoffman). Scripture habitually represents the world in an aspect at once natural and supernatural, speaking of it as natura and creatura, φύσις and κτίσις (cf. Marten, sen's 'Dogmatics,' § 63); and although the latter is the view exhibited with greatest prominence, indeed exclusively, in the Mosaic cosmogony, vet the frowner is not thereby denied, Not immediateness, but certainty of execution, is implied in the "it was so" appended to the creative fiat. <a href="/commentaries/genesis/1-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>And God אֱלֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative said, וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say “Let the waters הַמַּ֜יִם (ham·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4325.htm">Strong's 4325: </a> Water, juice, urine, semen under מִתַּ֤חַת (mit·ta·ḥaṯ) Preposition-m <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8478.htm">Strong's 8478: </a> The bottom, below, in lieu of the sky הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ (haš·šā·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8064.htm">Strong's 8064: </a> Heaven, sky be gathered יִקָּו֨וּ (yiq·qā·wū) Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6960.htm">Strong's 6960: </a> To bind together, collect, to expect into אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to one אֶחָ֔ד (’e·ḥāḏ) Number - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_259.htm">Strong's 259: </a> United, one, first place, מָק֣וֹם (mā·qō·wm) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4725.htm">Strong's 4725: </a> A standing, a spot, a condition so that the dry [land] הַיַּבָּשָׁ֑ה (hay·yab·bā·šāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3004.htm">Strong's 3004: </a> Dry land, dry ground may appear.” וְתֵרָאֶ֖ה (wə·ṯê·rā·’eh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> To see And it was וַֽיְהִי־ (way·hî-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be so. כֵֽן׃ (ḵên) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> So -- thus <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/genesis/1-9.htm">Genesis 1:9 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/genesis/1-9.htm">OT Law: Genesis 1:9 God said Let the waters under (Gen. 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