Genesis 1:8 meaning and explanation
God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
Genesis 1:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator continues the ordered account of creation: God speaks, what He commands comes to be, and He names what He has made. On the second day the waters are divided by an expanse, and God calls that expanse “sky,” the Hebrew shamayim, the same word used for the heavens.
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