For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River,That is, the Euphrates. because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.
Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:6
God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 1:7
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.
Genesis 1:9
God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.