⁹ Then God said: Let the water under the sky be gathered into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear. And so it happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry land appeared.^{(A) 10} God called the dry land “earth,” and the basin of water he called “sea.” God saw that it was good.

¹⁶ the waters flowing from upstream halted, standing up in a single heap^(A) for a very great distance indeed, from Adam, a city in the direction of Zarethan; those flowing downstream toward the Salt Sea of the Arabah disappeared entirely.^[a] Thus the people crossed over opposite Jericho.