Genesis 1:16

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

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

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

17And God set them in the expansion of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:19And that thou lift not up thy eyes unto the heavens, and thou see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be misled to bow down to them, and to serve them, those which the Lord thy God hath assigned unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Job 31:26If ever I looked at the light [of the sun] when he shone brightly and on the moon walking in splendor:

Psalms 8:3(8:4) When I behold thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast established:—

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

Psalms 136:9The moon and stars for the rule by night; for to eternity endureth his kindness.

Psalms 148:5Let them praise the name of the Lord; for he commanded and they were created.

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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