Genesis 1:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Ps 8:3 : 3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ps 148:5 : 5 Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.
  • Job 38:7 : 7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.
  • Rev 16:8-9 : 8 And the fourth let what was in his vessel come out on the sun; and power was given to it that men might be burned with fire. 9 And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
  • Isa 24:23 : 23 Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.
  • 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:
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till 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 the glory of one star is different from that of another.
  • Josh 10:12-14 : 12 It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon. 13 And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day. 14 And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.
  • Job 31:26 : 26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,
  • Ps 19:6 : 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 1:17-23
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    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.

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

    14 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:

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

  • Gen 1:1-11
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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.

  • Gen 2:4
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    4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

  • Ps 148:3
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    3 Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ps 74:16
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    16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

  • 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;

  • Gen 1:26-27
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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.

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    1 And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.

  • 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 33:6
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    6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

  • 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.

  • John 1:3
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    3 All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

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

  • Jer 51:15
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    15 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:

  • Job 38:7
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    7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

  • 2 Pet 1:19
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    19 And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

  • Isa 13:10
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    10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

  • 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.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19 He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

  • Deut 4:19
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    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.

  • Job 9:9
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    9 Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south:

  • 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.