Genesis 1:14

World English Bible (2000)

God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

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  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever: 8 The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever; 9 The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:
  • Ps 104:19-20 : 19 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set. 20 You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
  • Ps 8:3-4 : 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; 4 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?
  • Ps 74:16-17 : 16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. 17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.
  • Jer 31:35 : 35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
  • Ps 148:6 : 6 He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
  • Job 38:12-14 : 12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place; 13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it? 14 It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.
  • Job 38:31-32 : 31 "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? 32 Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
  • Joel 2:30-31 : 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
  • Joel 3:15 : 15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
  • Jer 33:20 : 20 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
  • Jer 10:2 : 2 Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
  • Ezek 32:7-8 : 7 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. 8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; 26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
  • Luke 23:45 : 45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
  • Acts 2:19-20 : 19 I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
  • Rev 6:12 : 12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
  • Rev 8:12 : 12 The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
  • Rev 9:2 : 2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
  • Ezek 46:1 : 1 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
  • Ezek 46:6 : 6 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish:
  • Joel 2:10 : 10 The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
  • Jer 33:25 : 25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
  • Mark 13:24 : 24 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
  • Matt 2:2 : 2 "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him."
  • Matt 16:2-3 : 2 But he answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' 3 In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
  • Gen 9:13 : 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
  • Job 3:9 : 9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
  • Job 25:3 : 3 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
  • Job 25:5 : 5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
  • Ps 119:91 : 91 Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
  • Ps 81:3 : 3 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
  • Ps 19:1-6 : 1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

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  • Gen 1:15-24
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    91%

    15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

    16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

    17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

    18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

    19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

    20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

    21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

    22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

    23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

    24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

  • Gen 1:1-13
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    83%

    1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

    3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

    4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

    5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

    6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

    7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

    8 God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

    9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

    10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

    11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

    12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

    13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

  • Gen 2:4
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    4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

  • Ps 19:1-2
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    1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

    2 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

  • Jer 31:35
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    35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

    27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

    28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

  • Gen 8:22
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    22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

  • Ps 104:19
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    19 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

  • Ps 74:16
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    16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

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    7 To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:

    8 The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever;

    9 The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:

  • Job 38:12
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    12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

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    1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.

  • Jer 4:23
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    23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

  • Job 26:10
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    10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

  • Ps 78:14
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    14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

  • Ps 148:5
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    5 Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For he commanded, and they were created.

  • Deut 33:14
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    14 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious 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 established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

  • Ps 8:3
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    3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

  • Jer 33:20
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    20 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;