Genesis 1:14

And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

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In The King James Version

And 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:

In Context

13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

15And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:13I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

Job 3:9Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

Job 25:5See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:

Job 38:31Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

Psalms 8:4\8:3\When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

Psalms 74:16The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:10-14

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding… Read the whole commentary →

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