The Bible Verse Genesis 1: 8
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Genesis 1: 8
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Loading ...And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
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In my commentary on verse 4 is the point that the chapter and verse numbers were added to the original text. I decided to combine verses 6-8 for this post because they flow well together.
“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.”
Verse 7 seems to be redundant of verse 6. Compare the creation of Heaven to the creation of Light: When God said “let there be light”, there was light. When God said “Let there be a firmament”, He then proceeds to make the firmament. Also, it is interesting that the firmament is not declared good at this point.
The firmament was called Heaven, but it is the heaven of the sky. The waters below the sky are probably the seas at this point. I say this because birds and fish are created on day 5 which corresponds to day 2. That is similar to why I also think that space was separated from matter on day 1 – because the stars of day 4 correspond. So, the water below is sea and the water above is the upper atmosphere and on into space.