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NASB | Genesis 1:9 ¶ Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:9 ¶ Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. |
Subject: One land mass? |
Bible Note: Dear Nolan, It is possible for the Bible to treat "in passing" what we might consider to be very significant, don't you think? Case in point: we are very impressed with the vastness of the universe with its kazillion stars flung out unimaginable distances. But in the creation account the significance is given to man's immediate environment, the earth, and of the kazillion stars Moses says, "he made the stars also! What an understatement! So here, the aftermath of a great judgement on man, the concern is not with geology, as significant as it might be to us, and so it (the breaking up of the one landmass) is only mentioned in passing. One other reason that it might be given only a passing reference is that it wasn't an act of God, but only a consequence of a previous event, like when God turned the water to blood, it mentions that the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water. Peace, Lionstrong |