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I. PRIMEVAL EVENTS 1:1--11:26 >
A. The story of creation 1:1-2:3 >
3. The six days of creation 1:3-31 >
The second day 1:6-8
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1:6 The "expanse"refers to the heavenly vault above the earth. Moses called it the "firmament"(AV) or "sky"(NIV). God placed the sun, moon, and stars in it (vv. 16-17).63
1:7 God separated the waters so some of them remained on the earth and some were above the earth in the atmosphere. Before He made this division there may have been a dense fog over the whole surface of the earth.64
1:8 "Heaven"is the same as the "expanse."Moses used it here as a general term to describe everything above the earth from man's viewpoint (v. 8).
