Genesis 1:14

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, 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

13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

15and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.

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Cross References

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

Job 3:9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Job 25:5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

Job 38:31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

Psalms 8:4what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Psalms 74:16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light 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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