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

God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

(Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.)

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,