Genesis 1:14

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for 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 was evening and there was morning, the third day.

15And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so.

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Cross References

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

Job 3:9Let the stars of that night be darkened; 1 Let it remain dark, and not come into light; 1 And let it not see the morning star arise: 1

Job 25:5If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; 1 And the stars are not pure before him. 1

Job 38:31And dost thou understand the band of Pleiades, 1 And hast thou opened the barrier of Orion? 1

Psalms 8:4For I will regard the heavens, the work of thy fingers; 1 The moon and stars, which thou hast established. 1

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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