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Genesis 1:16

So God made the two great lights: The greater to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night. God made the stars also.

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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

15Let them be lights in the dome of the sky to light the earth.” It was so.

17He placed all these lights in the dome of the sky to shed light upon the earth,

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Cross References

Psalms 8:3When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there,

Psalms 74:16Yours is the day; yours, too, is the night, it was you who did establish the sun and the star.

Psalms 136:9Moon and stars to rule over the night: for his kindness endures forever.

Psalms 148:5Let them praise the name of the Lord, for at his command they were made.

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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