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Now this world is encompassed by seven heavens, in which dwell powers and angels and archangels, doing service to God, the Almighty and Maker of all things: not as though He was in need, but that they may not be idle and unprofitable and ineffectual.

+ St Irenaeus, Demonstration of Apostolic Teaching

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In the beginning, God created the heavens [Hebrew הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם ha-shamayim: plural] and the earth [Hebrew הָאָֽרֶץ׃ erets: singular].

- Genesis 1:1 (most English translations preserve the plural/singular distinction between the heavens and the earth) 

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Our Father, Who art in the heavens [Greek οὐρανοῖς ouranois: plural], hallowed be Thy name.

- Matthew 6:9 (most English translations do not preserve the plural)

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I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven.

- St Paul, Second Epistle to the Corinthians, 12:2

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Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

- Deuteronomy 10:14

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Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the highest. Praise Him, all ye His angels; praise Him, all ye His hosts. Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all ye stars and light. Praise Him, ye heavens of heavens, and thou water that art above the heavens.

- Psalm 148:1-4