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|And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

|And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

|God made this expanse, and separated the waters underneath the expanse from the waters above the expanse. And so it came to be.

|God made this expanse, and separated the waters underneath the expanse from the waters above the expanse. And so it came to be.

|This expanse is ''not'' the sky; the "sheet of the skies" would come later. This particular expanse is the earth's crust, dividing surface water from a ''subcrustal'' [[ocean]].

|This expanse is the sky as the birds of the air are said to fly in the open firmament. This debunks the common misconception of the firmament being land.  

Note that the word rendered ''so'' in English is the Hebrew word ''ken'', which means ''yes.''

Note that the word rendered ''so'' in English is the Hebrew word ''ken'', which means ''yes.''