Genesis 1:6-8
6 God said, “Let there be an expanse ▼ ▼▼sn An expanse. In the poetic texts the writers envision, among other things, something rather strong and shiny, no doubt influencing the traditional translation “firmament” (cf. NRSV “dome”). Job 37:18 refers to the skies poured out like a molten mirror. Dan 12:3 and Ezek 1:22 portray it as shiny. The sky or atmosphere may have seemed like a glass dome. For a detailed study of the Hebrew conception of the heavens and sky, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World (AnBib), 37-60.
in the midst of the waters and let it separate water ▼▼tn Heb “the waters from the waters.”
from water.” 7So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. ▼▼tn Heb “the expanse.”
It was so. ▼▼tn This statement indicates that it happened the way God designed it, underscoring the connection between word and event.
8God called the expanse “sky.” ▼▼tn Though the Hebrew word can mean “heaven,” it refers in this context to “the sky.”
There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
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