Quotes about Waters
God's act of salvation in Exodus hearkens back to God's act of creation in Genesis, when God separated the waters on the second and third days of creation. Saving Israel is a divine act of "re-creation.
- Peter Enns
And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”
- Genesis 1:6
So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
- Genesis 1:7
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:21
And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
- Genesis 8:5
Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
- Genesis 8:8
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
- Genesis 8:11
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
- Genesis 8:13
Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
- Genesis 49:4
So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:6
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
- Exodus 14:26
But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- Exodus 15:10