Genesis 1:14

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heauen, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signes, and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

13So the euening and the morning were the third day.

15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heauen to giue light vpon the earth: and it was so.

Read all of Genesis 1

Cross References

Genesis 9:13I haue set my bowe in the cloude, and it shalbe for a signe of the couenant betweene me and the earth.

Job 3:9Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,

Job 25:5Behold, he wil giue no light to the moone, and the starres are vncleane in his sight.

Job 38:31Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?

Psalms 8:4What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?

Psalms 74:16The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 1:14