Genesis 1:14

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 was evening and it was morning, the third day.

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

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Cross References

Genesis 9:13My bow I do set in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of the covenant between me and the earth.

Job 3:9Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; let it hope for light, and there be none; and let it not behold the eyelids of the morning-dawn;

Job 25:5Behold, even as regardeth the moon, that is not bright; yea, the stars are not pure in his eyes.

Job 38:31Canst thou bind together the chains of the Pleiades, or loosen the bands of Orion?

Psalms 8:4(8:5) What is the mortal, that thou rememberest him? and the son of man, that thou thinkest of him:

Psalms 74:16Thine is the day and thine is the night: it is thou who hast prepared the luminary 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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