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Selected Verse: Genesis 1:8 - Hebrew Names

Verse         Translation Text
Ge 1:8 Hebrew Names God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
  King James And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

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The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
firmament

That is, the expanse above, the "heaven" of the clouds. (Gen 7:11); (Gen 8:2).
 
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2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.