⁶ Then God said: Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other. ⁷ God made the dome,^[a] and it separated the water below the dome from the water above the dome. And so it happened.^{(A) 8} God called the dome “sky.” Evening came, and morning followed—the second day.

⁹ Then God said: Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear. And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared.^{(B) 10} God called the dry land “earth,” and the basin of water he called “sea.” God saw that it was good.

^21 (A)Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind all night long and turned the sea into dry ground. The waters were split, ²² so that the Israelites entered into the midst of the sea on dry land, with the water as a wall to their right and to their left.

¹⁵ When those bearing the ark came to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were immersed in the waters of the Jordan—which overflows all its banks during the entire season of the harvest—^{[a] 16} the waters flowing from upstream halted, standing up in a single heap^(A) for a very great distance indeed, from Adam, a city in the direction of Zarethan; those flowing downstream toward the Salt Sea of the Arabah disappeared entirely.^[b] Thus the people crossed over opposite Jericho.