Genesis 1:14

And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

Darby Translation

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 a third day.

15and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:13I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Job 3:9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

Job 25:5Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:

Job 38:31Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

Psalms 8:4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Psalms 74:16The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon 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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