Psalm 78:13
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Genesis 1:9-10
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9 Then God said: Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear. And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared.(A) 10 God called the dry land “earth,” and the basin of water he called “sea.” God saw that it was good.
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Exodus 15:8
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8 At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up,
the flowing waters stood like a mound,
the flood waters foamed in the midst of the sea.
Joshua 3:16
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16 the waters flowing from upstream halted, standing up in a single heap(A) for a very great distance indeed, from Adam, a city in the direction of Zarethan; those flowing downstream toward the Salt Sea of the Arabah disappeared entirely.[a] Thus the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
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- 3:16 Some scholars have suggested that this account may reflect an annual ritual reenactment of the event near the sanctuary of Gilgal.
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