Genesis 1:7–8

1:7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.25 It was so.26 1:8 God called the expanse “sky.”27 There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

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25	tn Heb “the expanse.”
26	tn This statement indicates that it happened the way God designed it, underscoring the connection between word and event.
27	tn Though the Hebrew word can mean “heaven,” it refers in this context to “the sky.”