Biblical Histories of the Old Testament

God 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. And he called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. Genesis 1. original Latin: "Dixit Deus: Congregentur aquæ quę sub cœlo sunt, in locum unum, & appareat arida. & factum est. Vocauitq; aridam, Terram, congregationesq; aquarum, Mare. Gen. 1." The character "q;" is a common shorthand for the Latin suffix "-que," meaning "and."

A woodcut illustration depicting the third day of Creation. A bearded figure representing God the Father, wearing a crown and a radiant halo, stands with arms outstretched. He is dividing the scene between turbulent, swirling waters on the left and solid ground on the right. The landscape is simple, showing the emergence of dry land.

God separated all the water from the dry land; he named the dry land Earth and the gathering of the waters he named Sea. Genesis 1. original German: "Got sunderte alles wasser vom trucknen/ nennet das trucken Erd vñ die samlung der wasser/ nennet er Meer. Gen. j." In early German printing, the "v" and "u" were often interchangeable, and "vñ" with a tilde was a standard abbreviation for "und" (and).

Arida (The Latin term for "dryness" or "dry land," appearing here as a noun to describe the earth emerging from the primeval ocean.)
Virgule (The forward slash / used in the German text; it functioned as a comma or a pause in Early Modern typography.)
Genesis (The first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, detailing the origins of the world and humanity.)
Third Day (According to the Book of Genesis, this is the stage of creation where God formed the geographic boundaries of the world and called forth vegetation.)