Genesis 1:14

Then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and 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 it became evening and the morning, the third day.

15Let them shine in the firmament of heaven and illuminate the earth.” And so it became.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:13I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth.

Job 3:9Let the stars be concealed with its darkness. Let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawn in the East.

Job 25:5Behold, even the moon is not radiant, and the stars are not pure, in his sight.

Job 38:31Will you have the strength to join together the sparkling stars of the Pleiades, or are you able to disperse the circling of Arcturus?

Psalms 8:4For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.

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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