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In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude.

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain while the mountain was blazing up to the very heavens, shrouded in dark clouds.

And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.

Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens,

Although heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth with all that is in it,

for then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain and the land will yield no fruit; then you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.

so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Praise, O heavens, his people, worship him, all you gods! For he will avenge the blood of his children, and take vengeance on his adversaries; he will repay those who hate him, and cleanse the land for his people.

There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, majestic through the skies.

So Israel lives in safety, untroubled is Jacob's abode in a land of grain and wine, where the heavens drop down dew.

" Lord , when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens poured, the clouds indeed poured water.

Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it on a rock for herself, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell on them from the heavens; she did not allow the birds of the air to come on the bodies by day, or the wild animals by night.

Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked, because he was angry.