This is explained in considerable detail in the Book of Enoch (the following is an excerpt):
#Firmament in bible series
The Sun and Moon were thought to move in and out of the Firmament dome through a series of openings (reflecting the apparent movement of their rising and setting points throughout the year). The book of Genesis goes on to mention lights being placed in the firmament (Genesis 1:14-17):Īnd God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:Īnd let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth": and it was so.Īnd God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: the stars also.
So slight is this elevation that birds may rise to it and fly along its expanse." To this vault are fastened the lights, the stars.
Over this is arched the solid vault of heaven. "The Hebrews regarded the earth as a plain or a hill figured like a hemisphere, swimming on water. The Jewish Encyclopaedia describes the Firmament as follows: And the evening and the morning were the second day. God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.Īnd God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.Īnd God called the firmament Heaven. The word is mentioned in the Bible, in the course of the creation story of (Genesis 1:6–8):
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