Genesis 1:14

And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 the evening and the morning were the third day.

15To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth. And it was so done.

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Cross References

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

Job 3:9Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

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

Job 38:31Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?

Psalms 8:4For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

Psalms 74:16Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning 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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