Amos 9:6
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6 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the Lord is his name.(A)
Amos 5:8
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8 The one who made the Pleiades and Orion
and turns deep darkness into the morning
and darkens the day into night,
who calls for the water of the sea
and pours it out on the surface of the earth,
the Lord is his name,(A)
Psalm 104:3
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3 you set the beams of your[a] chambers on the waters;
you make the clouds your[b] chariot;
you ride on the wings of the wind;(A)
Amos 4:13
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13 For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind,
reveals his thoughts to mortals,
makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth—
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!(A)
Psalm 104:13
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13 From your lofty abode you water the mountains;
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.(A)
Jeremiah 5:22
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22 Do you not fear me? says the Lord;
Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
though they roar, they cannot pass over it.(A)
Psalm 104:5-6
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5 You set the earth on its foundations,
so that it shall never be shaken.(A)
6 You cover it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.(B)
Exodus 3:14-15
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14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.”[a] He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”(A) 15 God also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,[b] the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’:
This is my name forever,
and this my title for all generations.(B)
Genesis 7:11-19
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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.(A) 12 The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.(B) 13 On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark,(C) 14 they and every wild animal of every kind and all domestic animals of every kind and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth and every bird of every kind.[a] 15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.(D) 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.(E)
17 The flood continued forty days on the earth, and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.(F) 18 The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.(G) 19 The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;
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- 7.14 Gk: Heb adds every bird, every winged creature
Genesis 2:1
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2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all their multitude.(A)
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