Genesis 1:15

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

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14And 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;

16And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:7And God made the expansion, and divided between the waters which were under the expansion and the waters which were above the expansion: and it was so.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:15-20

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 14 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: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,… Read the whole commentary →

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