Genesis 1:16

Coverdale Bible (1535)

And God made two greate lightes: one greater light to rule the daye, and a lesse light to rule the night, and (he made) starres also.

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  • Ps 8:3 : 3 For I considre thy heauens, euen the worke off thy fyngers: the Moone and the starres which thou hast made.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 yt thou lifte not vp thine eyes towarde heauen, and se the Sonne and the Moone & the starres, and the whole hoost of heaue, and be disceaused, and worsh ppe, and serue them: which the LORDE yi God hath made to serue all nacios vnder ye whole heaue.
  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 Which hath made greate lightes, for his mercy endureth for euer. 8 The Sonne to rule the daye, for his mercy endureth for euer. 9 The Moone and the starres to gouerne the night, for his mercy endureth for euer.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift vp youre eyes an hie, and considre. Who hath made those thinges, which come out by so greate heapes? and he can call them all by their names. For there is nothinge hyd vnto the greatnesse of his power, strength, and might.
  • Ps 148:5 : 5 Let them prayse the name of the LORDE, for he comaunded, & they were made.
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Prayse him Sonne & Moone, prayse him all ye starres & light.
  • Job 38:7 : 7 where wast thou when the mornynge starres gaue me prayse, ad when all the angels of God reioysed?
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 Thou dyggest vp welles & brokes, thou dryest vp mightie waters.
  • Rev 16:8-9 : 8 And the fourth angell poured out his viall on the Sonne, and power was geuen vnto him to vexe men with heate of fyre. 9 And the men raged in gret heate, and spake euell of the name of God, which had power ouer those plages, and they repented not, to geue him glory.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 and the cite hath no nede of the Sonne, nether of the mone to lyghten it. For the bryghtnes of God doth light it: and the lambe is the lyght of it.
  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the starres and planetes of heauen shal not geue their light, the Sonne shalbe quenched in the rysinge, and the Mone shal not shyne with his light.
  • Isa 24:23 : 23 The Moone and the Sonne shalbe ashamed, when the LORDE of hoostes shal rule them at Ierusalem vpon the mount Sion, before and with his excellent councel.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 It is I yt created the light and darcknes, I make peace and trouble: Yee euen I the LORDE do all these thinges.
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The Sonne and Mone remayned still in their habitacion. Thine arowes wente out glisteringe, and thy speares as the shyne of the lightenynge.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 Immediatly after the trouble of the same tyme, shal the Sonne and Moone lose their light, and the starres shall fall from heauen, and the powers of heauen shal moue:
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 And from ye sixte houre there was darcknes ouer the whole earth vnto the nyenth houre.
  • 1 Cor 15:41 : 41 The Sonne hath one clearnes, the Moone hath another clearnesse, and the starres haue another clearnesse, for one starre excelleth another in clearnesse:
  • Josh 10:12-14 : 12 Then spake Iosua vnto the LORDE (the same daye that the LORDE gaue ouer the Amorites before the children of Israel) and sayde in the presence of Israel: Sonne, holde styll at Gibeon, and thou Moone in the valley of Aialon. 13 Then the Sonne helde styll, and ye Moone stode, vntyll the people had auenged the selues on their enemies. Is not this wrytten in the boke of the righteous? Thus the Sonne stode styll in the myddes of heauen, and dyfferred to go downe for the space of a whole daye after. 14 And there was no daye like vnto this (nether before ner after) whan the LORDE herkened vnto the voyce of one man: for the LORDE fought for Israel.
  • Job 31:26 : 26 Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysinge of the Sonne? Or, had I the goinge downe of ye Moone in greate reputacion?
  • Ps 19:6 : 6 It goeth forth fro the one ende of the heauen, and runneth aboute vnto the same ende agayne, & there maye no ma hyde himself fro the heate therof.

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  • Gen 1:17-23
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    89%

    17And God set them in the firmament of heauen, yt they might shyne vpo earth,

    18and to rule the daye and the night, and to deuyde the light from darcknes. And God sawe that it was good.

    19Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the fourth daye.

    20And God sayde: let the waters brynge forth creatures that moue and haue life, & foules for to flye aboue the earth vnder the firmamet of heauen.

    21And God created greate whalles, and all maner of creatures that lyue and moue, which the waters brought forth euery one after his kynde: and all maner of fethered foules, euery one after his kynde. And God sawe that it was good,

    22and blessed them, sayenge: Growe, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sees, and let the foules multiplie vpon the earth.

    23Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the fifth daye.

  • Gen 1:13-15
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    13Then of the euenynge & mornynge was made the thirde daye.

    14And God sayde: let there be lightes in ye firmament of heauen, to deuyde the daye fro the night, that they maye be vnto tokes, seasons, dayes, and yeares.

    15And let them be lightes in ye firmament of heauen, to shyne vpon the earth: And so it came to passe.

  • Gen 1:1-11
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    1In ye begynnynge God created heauen & earth:

    2and ye earth was voyde and emptie, and darcknes was vpon the depe, & ye sprete of God moued vpo the water.

    3And God sayde: let there be light, & there was light.

    4And God sawe the light that it was good. Then God deuyded ye light from the darcknes,

    5and called the light, Daye: and the darcknes, Night Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the first daye.

    6And God sayde: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it deuyde ye waters a sunder.

    7Then God made ye firmamet, and parted the waters vnder the firmamet, from the waters aboue the firmament: And so it came to passe.

    8And God called ye firmament, Heauen. Then of the euenynge & mornynge was made the seconde daye.

    9And God sayde: let the waters vnder heauen gather theselues vnto one place, yt the drye londe maye appeare. And so it came to passe.

    10And God called ye drye londe, Earth: and the gatheringe together of waters called he, ye See. And God sawe yt it was good.

    11And God sayde: let ye earth bringe forth grene grasse and herbe, that beareth sede: & frutefull trees, that maye beare frute, euery one after his kynde, hauynge their owne sede in them selues vpon the earth. And so it came to passe.

  • Gen 2:4
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    4These are the generacions of heaue and earth whan they were created, in the tyme whan the LORDE God made heauen and earth:

  • Ps 148:3
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    3Prayse him Sonne & Moone, prayse him all ye starres & light.

  • Jer 31:35
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    35Thus saieth the LORDE which gaue the sonne to be a light for the daye, and the Moone and starres to shyne in the night: which moueth the see, so that the floudes therof waxe fearce: his name is the LORDE of hoostes.

  • Ps 19:1-2
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    1The very heaues declare the glory off God, ad the very firmamet sheweth his hadye worke.

    2One daye telleth another, and one night certifieth another.

  • Ps 136:7-9
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    7Which hath made greate lightes, for his mercy endureth for euer.

    8The Sonne to rule the daye, for his mercy endureth for euer.

    9The Moone and the starres to gouerne the night, for his mercy endureth for euer.

  • Ps 74:16
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    16Thou dyggest vp welles & brokes, thou dryest vp mightie waters.

  • Ps 8:3
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    3For I considre thy heauens, euen the worke off thy fyngers: the Moone and the starres which thou hast made.

  • Gen 1:26-27
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    26And God sayde: let vs make man in or similitude after oure licknesse, that he maye haue rule ouer the fysh of the see, and ouer the foules vnder ye heauen, and ouer catell, and ouer all the earth, and ouer all wormes that crepe on ye earth.

    27And God created man after his licknesse: after ye licknesse of God created he him, male & female created he them.

  • Gen 2:1
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    1Thus was heaue and earth fynished with all their hoost,

  • Jer 10:12
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    12But (as for oure God) he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdome hath he fynished the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discrecion hath he spred out the heauens,

  • Ps 33:6
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    6By the worde of the LORDE were the heauens made, & all the hoostes of them by ye breth of his mouth.

  • Ps 78:14
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    14He deuyded the see and let them go thorow it, and made the waters to stonde like a wall.

  • John 1:3
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    3All thinges were made by the same, and without the same was made nothinge that was made.

  • 1 Cor 15:41
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    41The Sonne hath one clearnes, the Moone hath another clearnesse, and the starres haue another clearnesse, for one starre excelleth another in clearnesse:

  • Jer 51:15
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    15Yee euen the LORDE of hoostes, that with his power made the earth, with his wi?dome prepayred ye rounde worlde, & with his discrecion spred out the heauens.

  • Job 38:7
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    7where wast thou when the mornynge starres gaue me prayse, ad when all the angels of God reioysed?

  • 2 Pet 1:19
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    19We haue also a sure worde of prophecie, and ye do well that ye take hede thervnto, as vnto a lighte that shyneth in a darke place vntyll the daye dawne, and the daye starre aryse in youre hertes.

  • Isa 13:10
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    10For the starres and planetes of heauen shal not geue their light, the Sonne shalbe quenched in the rysinge, and the Mone shal not shyne with his light.

  • Jer 4:23
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    23I haue loked vpon the earth, and se, it is wayst and voyde. I loked towarde heauen, and it had no shyne.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19Thou hast appoynted the Moone for certayne seasons, the Sonne knoweth his goinge downe.

  • Deut 4:19
    68%

    19yt thou lifte not vp thine eyes towarde heauen, and se the Sonne and the Moone & the starres, and the whole hoost of heaue, and be disceaused, and worsh ppe, and serue them: which the LORDE yi God hath made to serue all nacios vnder ye whole heaue.

  • Job 9:9
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    9He maketh the waynes of heauen, the Orions, the vij. starres and the secrete places of the south.

  • Job 26:10
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    10He hath copased the waters wt certayne boundes, vntill the daye & night come to an ende.