God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.
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"Let the waters gather" - not that they dried up, as many have thought, saying that the process of drying up of the exposed portion of the earth happened through the power of the heavenly array, but rather that He commanded that they [the waters] be gathered in one place and that they not go past it, for indeed, they are above the earth yet they do not fall upon it, as one's senses can testify, as it is said, "You placed a boundary that they not go past, that they not return to cover the earth Psalms 104:9
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