Genesis 1:14

And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the raki'a of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for otot (signs), and for mo'adim (seasons), and for yamim (days), and shanim (years);

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 the erev and the boker were Yom Shlishi (Day Three, the Third Day). + 1:13 Ex 19:11,15-16; Josh 1:11; Num 19:11-16; Jon 2:1; Hos 6:2; 2Kgs 20:5,8; Ezra 6:15; 1C 15:4,20; Notice on Yom HaShlishi (The Third Day, Gn 1:13) is Yom HaBikkurim of the Bria HaOlam, the Firstfruits of the Creation of the World; just as Hos 6:2 indicates Yom HaShlishi is the time marker of the Techiyas HaMesim (Resurrection of the Dead), so Yom HaBikkurim fell on Nisan 16, and became a time marker delineating the countdown from the Resurrection of Moshiach Nisan 16, 3793 (33 C.E.) to Shavuos, 3793 and the Matan HaTevilah BeRuach Hakodesh. Lv 23:11.

15And let them be for lights in the raki'a of the heaven to give light upon the earth; and it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:13I do set My keshet (bow) in the anan (cloud), and it shall be for an ot brit between Me and ha'aretz.

Job 3:9Because it shut not up the dalatot of my motherʼs womb, 1 nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes. 1

Job 25:5If even the yarei'ach shineth not, 1 yea, the kokhavim are not pure in His sight, 1

Job 38:31Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, 1 or loose the bonds of Orion? 1

Psalms 8:4When I consider Thy heavens, the ma'asim of Thy fingers, 1 the yarei'ach and the kokhavim, which Thou hast ordained; 1

Psalms 74:16The yom is Thine, the lailah also is Thine; 1 Thou hast prepared the ma'ohr (luminary, moon) and the shemesh. 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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