Genesis 1:16

And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so.

17And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:19and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

Job 31:26(Do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, 1 And the moon waning? for they have not power to continue): 1

Psalms 8:3Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou perfected praise, 1 Because of thine enemies; 1 That thou mightest put down the enemy and avenger. 1

Psalms 136:9Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash thine infants against the rock.

Psalms 148:5Let them praise the name of the Lord: 1 For he spoke, and they were made; 1 He commanded, and they were created. 1

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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