Genesis 1:14

And God said—Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night,—and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 it was evening—and it was morning, a third day.

15yea let them be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:13My bow, have I set in the cloud,—and it shall be for a sign of a covenant, betwixt me and the earth;

Job 3:9Darkened be the stars of its twilight,—Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn:

Job 25:5Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes!

Job 38:31Canst thou bind the fetters of the Pleiades? Or, the bands of Orion, canst thou unloose?

Psalms 8:4What was weak man, that thou shouldst make mention of him? or the son of the earthborn, that thou shouldst set him in charge?

Psalms 74:16Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and 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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