Genesis 1:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

God then made two great lightes: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesse light to rule the night: he made also the starres.

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  • Ps 8:3 : 3 When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 And lest thou lift vp thine eyes vnto heauen, and when thou seest the sunne & the moone and the starres with all the host of heauen, shouldest bee driuen to worship them and serue them, which the Lord thy God hath distributed to all people vnder the whole heauen.
  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 Which made great lightes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 8 As the sunne to rule the day: for his mercie endureth for euer: 9 The moone and the starres to gouerne the night: for his mercie endureth for euer:
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift vp your eyes on hie, and beholde who hath created these things, and bringeth out their armies by nomber, and calleth them all by names? by the greatnesse of his power & mightie strength nothing faileth.
  • Ps 148:5 : 5 Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for he commauded, and they were created.
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Prayse ye him, sunne and moone: prayse ye him all bright starres.
  • Job 38:7 : 7 When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.
  • Rev 16:8-9 : 8 And the fourth Angel powred out his viall on the sunne, and it was giuen vnto him to torment men with heate of fire, 9 And men boyled in great heate, and blasphemed the Name of God, which hath power ouer these plagues, and they repented not, to giue him glorie.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 And this citie hath no neede of the sunne, neither of the moone to shine in it: for the glorie of God did light it: and the Lambe is the light of it.
  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the starres of heauen and the planets thereof shall not giue their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going foorth, and the moone shal not cause her light to shine.
  • Isa 24:23 : 23 Then the moone shal be abashed, and the sunne ashamed, when the Lorde of hostes shall reigne in mount Zion and in Ierusalem: and glory shalbe before his ancient men.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the Lorde doe all these things.
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The sunne and moone stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrowes they went, and at the bright shining of thy speares.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 And immediately after ye tribulations of those dayes, shall the sunne be darkened, and the moone shall not giue her light, & the starres shall fal fro heauen, & ye powers of heaue shalbe shake.
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from ye sixt houre was there darkenesse ouer all the land, vnto the ninth houre.
  • 1 Cor 15:41 : 41 There is another glorie of the sunne, and another glorie of the moone, and another glorie of the starres: for one starre differeth from another starre in glorie.
  • Josh 10:12-14 : 12 Then spake Ioshua to the Lord, in the day when the Lord gaue the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he sayd in the sight of Israel, Sunne, stay thou in Gibeon, and thou moone, in the valley of Aialon. 13 And the Sunne abode, & the moone stood still, vntill the people auenged themselues vpon their enemies: (Is not this written in the booke of Iasher?) so the Sunne abode in the middes of the heauen, and hasted not to goe downe for a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it, nor after it, that the Lord heard the voyce of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel.
  • Job 31:26 : 26 If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,
  • Ps 19:6 : 6 His going out is from the ende of the heauen, and his compasse is vnto the endes of ye same, and none is hid from the heate thereof.

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  • Gen 1:17-23
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    17And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shine vpon the earth,

    18And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to separate the light from the darkenes: and God sawe that it was good.

    19So the euening and the morning were the fourth day.

    20Afterward God said, Let the waters bring foorth in abundance euery creeping thing that hath life: and let the foule flie vpon the earth in the open firmament of the heauen.

    21Then God created the great whales, and euery thing liuing and mouing, which the waters brought foorth in abundance according to their kinde, and euery fethered foule according to his kinde: and God sawe that it was good.

    22Then God blessed them, saying, Bring foorth fruite and multiplie, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the foule multiplie in the earth.

    23So the euening and the morning were the fift day.

  • Gen 1:13-15
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    13So the euening and the morning were the third day.

    14And God said, Let there be lightes in the firmament of the heauen, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signes, and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.

    15And let them be for lightes in the firmament of the heauen to giue light vpon the earth; it was so.

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

    2And the earth was without forme and voide, and darkenesse was vpon the deepe, and the Spirit of God moued vpon ye waters.

    3Then God saide, Let there be light: And there was light.

    4And God sawe the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkenes.

    5And God called the light, Day, and the darkenes, he called Night. So the euening and the morning were the first day.

    6Againe God saide, Let there be a firmament in the middes of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.

    7Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament; it was so.

    8And God called the firmament Heauen. So the Euening and the morning were the seconde day.

    9God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare; it was so.

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

    11Then God said, Let the earth bud foorth the bud of the herbe, that seedeth seede, the fruitfull tree, which beareth fruite according to his kinde, which hath his seede in it selfe vpon the earth; it was so.

  • Gen 2:4
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    4These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,

  • Ps 148:3
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    3Prayse ye him, sunne and moone: prayse ye him all bright starres.

  • Jer 31:35
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    35Thus saith the Lorde, which giueth the sunne for a light to the day, and the courses of the moone and of the starres for a light to the night, which breaketh the sea, when the waues thereof roare: his Name is the Lord of hostes.

  • Ps 19:1-2
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    1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The heauens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth ye worke of his hands.

    2Day vnto day vttereth the same, & night vnto night teacheth knowledge.

  • Ps 136:7-9
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    7Which made great lightes: for his mercie endureth for euer:

    8As the sunne to rule the day: for his mercie endureth for euer:

    9The moone and the starres to gouerne the night: for his mercie endureth for euer:

  • Ps 74:16
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    16The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.

  • Ps 8:3
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    3When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,

  • Gen 1:26-27
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    26Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth.

    27Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.

  • Gen 2:1
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    1Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

  • Jer 10:12
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    12He hath made the earth by his power, and established the worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.

  • Ps 33:6
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    6By the worde of the Lorde were the heauens made, & all the hoste of them by the breath of his mouth.

  • Ps 78:14
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    14In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.

  • John 1:3
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    3All things were made by it, and without it was made nothing that was made.

  • 1 Cor 15:41
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    41There is another glorie of the sunne, and another glorie of the moone, and another glorie of the starres: for one starre differeth from another starre in glorie.

  • Jer 51:15
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    15He hath made the earth by his power, & established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.

  • Job 38:7
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    7When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:

  • 2 Pet 1:19
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    19We haue also a most sure worde of the Prophets, to the which ye doe well that yee take heede, as vnto a light that shineth in a darke place, vntill the day dawne, and the day starre arise in your hearts.

  • Isa 13:10
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    10For the starres of heauen and the planets thereof shall not giue their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going foorth, and the moone shal not cause her light to shine.

  • Jer 4:23
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    23I haue looked vpon the earth, and loe, it was without forme and voide: and to the heauens, and they had no light.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19He appoynted the moone for certaine seasons: the sunne knoweth his going downe.

  • Deut 4:19
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    19And lest thou lift vp thine eyes vnto heauen, and when thou seest the sunne & the moone and the starres with all the host of heauen, shouldest bee driuen to worship them and serue them, which the Lord thy God hath distributed to all people vnder the whole heauen.

  • Job 9:9
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    9He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.

  • Job 26:10
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    10He hath set bounds about the waters, vntil the day and night come to an ende.