Genesis 1:7

1:7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. ¹  It was so. ² 

Genesis 8:2

8:2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, ³  and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

Genesis 8:2

8:2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, ⁴  and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

Genesis 7:2

7:2 You must take with you seven ⁵  of every kind of clean animal, ⁶  the male and its mate, ⁷  two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

Genesis 7:19

7:19 The waters completely inundated ⁸  the earth so that even ⁹  all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

Psalms 78:23-24

78:23 He gave a command to the clouds above,

and opened the doors in the sky.

78:24 He rained down manna for them to eat;

he gave them the grain of heaven. ¹⁰ 

Malachi 3:10

3:10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse ¹¹  so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.

¹ tn Heb “the expanse.”

² tn This statement indicates that it happened the way God designed it, underscoring the connection between word and event.

³ tn Some (e.g., NIV) translate the preterite verb forms in this verse as past perfects (e.g., “had been closed”), for it seems likely that the sources of the water would have stopped before the waters receded.

⁴ tn Some (e.g., NIV) translate the preterite verb forms in this verse as past perfects (e.g., “had been closed”), for it seems likely that the sources of the water would have stopped before the waters receded.

⁵ tn Or “seven pairs” (cf. NRSV).

⁶ sn For a study of the Levitical terminology of “clean” and “unclean,” see L. E. Toombs, IDB 1:643.

⁷ tn Heb “a male and his female” (also a second time at the end of this verse). The terms used here for male and female animals (אִישׁ, ’ish) and אִשָּׁה, ’ishah) normally refer to humans.

⁸ tn Heb “and the waters were great exceedingly, exceedingly.” The repetition emphasizes the depth of the waters.

⁹ tn Heb “and.”

¹⁰ sn Manna was apparently shaped like a seed (Exod 16:31), perhaps explaining why it is here compared to grain.

¹¹ tn The Hebrew phrase בֵּית הָאוֹצָר (bet ha’otsar, here translated “storehouse”) refers to a kind of temple warehouse described more fully in Nehemiah (where the term לִשְׁכָּה גְדוֹלָה [lishkah gÿdolah, “great chamber”] is used) as a place for storing grain, frankincense, temple vessels, wine, and oil (Neh 13:5). Cf. TEV “to the Temple.”