Genesis 1:8

1:8 God called the expanse “sky.” ¹  There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 2:13

2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through ²  the entire land of Cush. ³ 

Genesis 8:14

8:14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth ⁴  was dry.

Genesis 22:15

22:15 The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven

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¹ tn Though the Hebrew word can mean “heaven,” it refers in this context to “the sky.”

² tn Heb “it is that which goes around.”

³ sn Cush. In the Bible the Hebrew word כּוּשׁ (kush, “Kush”) often refers to Ethiopia (so KJV, CEV), but here it must refer to a region in Mesopotamia, the area of the later Cassite dynasty of Babylon. See Gen 10:8 as well as E. A. Speiser, Genesis (AB), 20.

⁴ tn In v. 13 the ground (הָאֲדָמָה, ha’adamah) is dry; now the earth (הָאָרֶץ, ha’arets) is dry.