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Selected Verse: Genesis 1:8 - Amplified Bible©

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Ge 1:8 Amplified Bible© And God called the firmament Heavens. And 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 Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the gushing rain from the sky was checked,
11 In the year 600 of Noah's life, in the seventeenth day of the second month, that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and burst forth, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.