9 And God said, g“Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.
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Job 38:8–11
“Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
when I made clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
and prescribed limits for it
and set bars and doors,
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
Psalm 33:7
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;
he puts the deeps in storehouses.
Psalm 136:6
to him who spread out the earth above the waters,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
Jeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear me? declares the LORD.
Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea,
a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
2 Peter 3:5
For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,
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