Isaiah 45:12
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12 I made the earth
and created humankind upon it;
it was my hands that stretched out the heavens,
and I commanded all their host.(A)
Isaiah 42:5
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5 Thus says God, the Lord,
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
who gives breath to the people upon it
and spirit to those who walk in it:(A)
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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Isaiah 44:24
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24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
who formed you in the womb:
I am the Lord, who made all things,
who alone stretched out the heavens,
who by myself spread out the earth;(A)
Nehemiah 9:6
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6 And Ezra said,[a] “You are the Lord, you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. To all of them you give life, and the host of heaven worships you.(A)
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- 9.6 Gk: Heb lacks And Ezra said
Jeremiah 27:5
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5 It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the people and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever I please.(A)
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Isaiah 45:18
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18 For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
(he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
(he established it;
he did not create it a chaos;
he formed it to be inhabited!):
I am the Lord, and there is no other.(A)
Hebrews 11:3
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3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.[a](A)
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- 11.3 Or was not made out of visible things
Zechariah 12:1
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Jerusalem’s Victory
12 An Oracle.
The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:(A)
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Jeremiah 32:17
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17 “Ah Lord God! It is you who made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.(A)
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Isaiah 40:28
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28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.(A)
Isaiah 40:22
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22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
and spreads them like a tent to live in,(A)
Isaiah 40:12
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12 Who has measured the waters of the sea[a] in the hollow of his hand
and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
and weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance?(A)
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- 40.12 Q ms: MT lacks of the sea
Psalm 102:25
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25 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,
and the heavens are the work of your hands.(A)
Genesis 1:26-27
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26 Then God said, “Let us make humans[a] in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth[b] and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”(A)
27 So God created humans[c] in his image,
in the image of God he created them;[d]
male and female he created them.(B)
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