Genesis 1:8

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• Vulgate Text: Genesis 1:1-31 — Full Vulgate text quoted

  "8. And God called the firmament Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the second day."

• Verse 8: And God called the firmament Heaven — Etymology of coelum from celare (to hide); in Hebrew shamaim

  "8. AND GOD CALLED THE FIRMAMENT HEAVEN. -- 'Coelum' [heaven] in Latin is derived from 'celare,' that is, to hide"