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Today, we call our planet, 'earth', just as we call the ground we walk on and the soil we dig, 'earth'. But earth did not have a planetary name in The Bible, because the biblical authors did not know that it is a planet.

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In the Old Testament, Earth was referred to as the Firmament.

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