Genesis 1:14

And God says, “Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for appointed times, and for days and years,

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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 is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] third day.

15and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”: and it is so.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:13My bow I have given in the cloud, and it has been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;

Job 3:9Let the stars of its twilight be dark, || Let it wait for light, and there is none, || And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

Job 25:5Behold—to the moon, and it does not shine, || And stars have not been pure in His eyes.

Job 38:31Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion?

Psalms 8:4What [is] man that You remember him? The son of man that You inspect him?

Psalms 74:16The day [is] Yours, || The night [is] also Yours, || You have prepared a light-giver—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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