Genesis 1:14

God said, “Let there be lights in the sky to divide the day from the night and let them be as signs, for seasons, for days and years.

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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

13This was evening and morning, the third day.

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

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Cross References

Genesis 9:13I have set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Job 3:9May the stars of that day's dawn be dark. 1 May that day look for light, but find none; 1 neither may it see the eyelids of the dawn, 1

Job 25:5See, even the moon has no brightness to him; 1 the stars are not pure in his sight. 1

Job 38:31Can you fasten chains on the Pleiades, 1 or undo the cords of Orion? 1

Psalms 8:4Of what importance is the human race that you notice them, 1 or mankind that you pay attention to them? 1

Psalms 74:16The day is yours, and the night is yours also; 1 you set the sun and moon in place. 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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