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Selected Verse: Genesis 1:8 - Webster

Verse         Translation Text
Ge 1:8 Webster And God called the firmament Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the 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 fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.