2 Esdras 6:41-43

Common English Bible

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.

⁴² “On the third day you commanded the waters to be gathered together in a seventh part of the earth, but you made six parts dry and preserved them so that some of these might be sown and cultivated, to be of service before you. ⁴³ Your word went forth, and the work was immediately accomplished.