2 Esdras 6:39-41

Common English Bible

³⁹ Then the spirit was hovering, darkness was spread around, and there was silence. There was as yet no sound of a human voice.^{[a] 40} Then you commanded that a ray of light be brought forth from your treasuries so that your works might be seen.

⁴¹ “Then on the second day you created the spirit of the firmament and commanded that it divide and make a division between the waters so that a certain part might recede upward and another part remain below.