Genesis 1:16

American Standard Version (1901)

And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

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  • Ps 8:3 : 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.
  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 To him that made great lights; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever: 8 The sun to rule by day; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; 9 The moon and stars to rule by night; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
  • Ps 148:5 : 5 Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For he commanded, and they were created.
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: Praise him, all ye stars of light.
  • Job 38:7 : 7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
  • Rev 16:8-9 : 8 And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God who hath the power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him glory.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof [is] the Lamb.
  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
  • Isa 24:23 : 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
  • 1 Cor 15:41 : 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
  • Josh 10:12-14 : 12 Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Jehovah hearkened unto the voice of a man: for Jehovah fought for Israel.
  • Job 31:26 : 26 If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
  • Ps 19:6 : 6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, And his circuit unto the ends of it; And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

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    17And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,

    18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

    19And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

    20And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

    21And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

    22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.

    23And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

  • Gen 1:13-15
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    13And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

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    15and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

  • Gen 1:1-11
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    1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

    3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

    5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

    6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

    7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

    8And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

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    10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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    4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

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    3Praise ye him, sun and moon: Praise him, all ye stars of light.

  • Jer 31:35
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    35Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:

  • Ps 19:1-2
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    1[For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork.

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  • Ps 136:7-9
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    7To him that made great lights; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:

    8The sun to rule by day; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;

    9The moon and stars to rule by night; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:

  • Ps 74:16
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    16The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

  • Ps 8:3
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    3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

  • Gen 1:26-27
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    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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  • Jer 10:12
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    12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:

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    6By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

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    14In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.

  • John 1:3
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    3All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.

  • 1 Cor 15:41
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    41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.

  • Jer 51:15
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    15He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:

  • Job 38:7
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    7When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

  • 2 Pet 1:19
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    19And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

  • Isa 13:10
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    10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

  • Jer 4:23
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    23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knoweth his going down.

  • Deut 4:19
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    19and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.

  • Job 9:9
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    9That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

  • Job 26:10
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    10He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.