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God declared on the third day of creation, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. In the gathering together of the waters on the surface of the earth, separation occurred.
The Hebrew word is erets in both verse 1 and verse 10. Erets refers to (1) earth, as contrasted to the heavens (Gen 1:1); (2) or more restricted to all the dry land of the earth (1:10); (3) or restricted even further by referring to just the land of a certain section of the earth…