Genesis 1:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

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  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 8 The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 9 The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
  • Ps 104:19-20 : 19 He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down. 20 When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.
  • Ps 8:3-4 : 3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places; 4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
  • Ps 74:16-17 : 16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun. 17 By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.
  • Jer 31:35 : 35 These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.
  • Ps 148:6 : 6 He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.
  • Job 38:12-14 : 12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; 13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it? 14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;
  • Job 38:31-32 : 31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose? 32 Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 25 And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves; 26 Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.
  • Jer 33:20 : 20 The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,
  • Jer 10:2 : 2 This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.
  • Ezek 32:7-8 : 7 And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:
  • Joel 3:15 : 15 Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
  • Mark 13:24 : 24 But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,
  • Ezek 46:1 : 1 This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open.
  • Ezek 46:6 : 6 And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark:
  • Joel 2:10 : 10 The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:
  • Jer 33:25 : 25 The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,
  • Luke 23:45 : 45 The light of the sun went out, and the curtain in the Temple was parted in two.
  • Acts 2:19-20 : 19 And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke: 20 The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:
  • Rev 6:12 : 12 And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;
  • Rev 8:12 : 12 And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.
  • Rev 9:2 : 2 And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:
  • Matt 2:2 : 2 Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.
  • Matt 16:2-3 : 2 But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
  • Gen 9:13 : 13 I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.
  • Job 3:9 : 9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.
  • Job 25:3 : 3 Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?
  • Job 25:5 : 5 See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:
  • Ps 119:91 : 91 They are ruled this day by your decisions; for all things are your servants.
  • Ps 81:3 : 3 Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
  • Ps 19:1-6 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands. 2 Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge. 3 There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun, 5 Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way. 6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

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  • Gen 1:15-24
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    15 And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

    16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

    17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

    18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

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

    20 And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

    21 And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

    22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

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

    24 And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

  • Gen 1:1-13
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    1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

    2 And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

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

    4 And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

    5 Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

    6 And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

    7 And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

    8 And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

    9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

    10 And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

    11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

    12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

    13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

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    4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

  • Ps 19:1-2
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    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

    2 Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.

  • Jer 31:35
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    35 These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

    27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

    28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

  • Gen 8:22
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    22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

  • Ps 104:19
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    16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

  • Ps 136:7-9
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    7 To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

    8 The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

    9 The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

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    12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

  • Gen 2:1
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    1 And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.

  • Jer 4:23
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    23 Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

  • Job 26:10
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    10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • Ps 78:14
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    14 In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.

  • Ps 148:5
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    5 Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.

  • Deut 33:14
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    14 And the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the good things of the growth of the moons,

  • Jer 10:12
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    12 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

  • Ps 8:3
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    3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

  • Jer 33:20
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