⁷ And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

⁴ Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.

²⁸ When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

²⁹ When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

³ If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.

¹⁰ You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

⁸ Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

⁹ When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

¹⁰ Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

¹¹ And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

⁸ By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

¹¹ And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.