Genesis 1:14

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and 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 was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

15And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:13I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

Job 25:5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

Job 38:31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

Psalms 74:16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and 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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