Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Verse 9.

Then God said, let the water under heaven be gathered together into one place and let the

dry land appear.

And it was so.

The water under heaven was gathered into its places and the dry land appeared.

So God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters he called seas, and God saw

that it was good. Then God said, let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and likeness.

Let the fruit tree bear fruit whose seed is in itself according to its kind on earth.

It was so.

Thus the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and likeness.

The fruit trees bore fruit whose seed is in itself according to its kind and lightness. The fruit trees bore fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind on earth.

God saw that it was good.

So evening and morning were the third day.

So the third day, again, we see at the beginning, right, this idea of separation in putting in order.

And notice the language, right?

God doesn't cause the dry land to, like, rise up out of the water.

We were making a movie today, that's probably how we depict it, right?

Like, rise out of the water.

What it says is that God takes the waters and sort of pulls them back and restrains them,

gathers them together so that the dry land appears, right?

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