OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 1:7

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7

God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

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Verse 7. Above the firmament and stars, according to some of the Fathers; or these waters were vapours and clouds arising from the earth, and really divided from the lower waters contained in the sea. Calmet.

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