Mucko

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A.
Then God said,
"Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters,
to separate one body of water from the other."
And so it happened:
God made the dome,
and it separated the water above the dome from the water below it.
God called the dome "the sky."
Evening came, and morning followed–the second day.

B.
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.
God called the dry land "the earth,"
and the basin of the water he called "the sea."

Mucko

Is the illustration accurate according to the description?

The_Unknown_Banana

lol. That's how I'd interpret it too

Asha'man

Essentially, yes.

Arken

I'm more concerned about how he created plants first, THEN the sun...

EGGO

I want to see where the quotes came from though.

It's pretty much accurate...unless there's some 'symbolism' to it like I usually hear.

EstherRose

Yes I'd like to know what translation you are using. Not a single one of my translations say that. Not KJV, NKJV, NASB, or NIV.

lpetrich

Those illustrations are reasonable. And for more about Biblical cosmology, see the Flat-Earth Bible. The writers of the Bible had not been very interested in cosmological questions, so one has to work out their views from their various offhand comments. However, the noncanonical book 1 Enoch goes into much more detail, clarifying a lot of Biblical statements.

Spaz

That's pretty much how I see it. The people then were like, water is blue, the sky is blue, obviously there's water up there, but why doesn't it fall down on us? There must be some kind of firmament that holds it up there, yeah...

Magus55

firmament means expanse. Yes there is an expanse over the Earth that separates the water in the air ( water vapor) from the water on the ground - its called the atmosphere. I'd say the atmosphere would be considered an expanse, considering it covers the entire earth.