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calling the light “day,” and the darkness[a] “night.” The twilight and the dawn were day one.

Then God said, “Let there be a canopy[b] between bodies of water,[c] separating bodies of water[d] from bodies of water!”[e] So God made a canopy[f] that separated the water beneath the canopy[g] from the water above it.[h] And that is what happened:[i]

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  1. Genesis 1:5 Lit. darkness he called
  2. Genesis 1:6 Or an expanse
  3. Genesis 1:6 Lit. between waters
  4. Genesis 1:6 Lit. separating waters
  5. Genesis 1:6 Lit. from waters
  6. Genesis 1:7 Or made an expanse
  7. Genesis 1:7 Or expanse
  8. Genesis 1:7 Lit. above the canopy
  9. Genesis 1:7 Lit. And so it was