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9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.
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And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
10 And God called the dry [land] Earth, and the collection of waters he called Seas: and God saw that it [was] good.
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God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit-tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
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Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after its kind: and God saw that it [was] good.
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The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night: and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.
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And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
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and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
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God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth.
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God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
18 And to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it [was] good.
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to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
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