Genesis 1:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shine vpon the earth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 8:3 : 3 When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,
  • Acts 13:47 : 47 For so hath the Lord commanded vs, saying, I haue made thee a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be the saluation vnto the end of the world.
  • Gen 9:13 : 13 I haue set my bowe in the cloude, and it shalbe for a signe of the couenant betweene me and the earth.
  • Job 38:12 : 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? Hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,
  • Ps 8:1 : 1 To him that excelleth on Gittith. A Psalme of Dauid. O lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the worlde! which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.

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  • Gen 1:13-16
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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.

    16God 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.

  • Gen 1:18-20
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    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.

  • 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.

  • Ps 19:1
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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.

  • 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,

  • Gen 1:22
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    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.

  • 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 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 1:26-28
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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.

    28And God blessed them, and God said to them, Bring forth fruite and multiplie, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, & ouer euery beast that moueth vpon the earth.

  • 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 104:2
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    2Which couereth himselfe with light as with a garment, and spreadeth the heauens like a curtaine.

  • 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 19:4
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    4Their line is gone forth through all the earth, & their words into the endes of the world: in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne.

  • Prov 3:19
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    19The Lorde by wisdome hath layde the foundation of the earth, and hath stablished the heauens through vnderstanding.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Job 22:12
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    12Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.

  • Job 36:30
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    30Beholde, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.

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

  • Ps 148:5
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    5Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for he commauded, and they were created.

  • 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.

  • Prov 8:28
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    28When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,

  • 2 Cor 4:6
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    6For God that commanded the light to shine out of darknesse, is he which hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ.

  • Job 37:18
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    18Hast thou stretched out the heaues, which are strong, and as a molten glasse?

  • Heb 1:10
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    10And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast established the earth, and the heauens are the workes of thine handes.

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