Genesis 1:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 8:3 : 3 For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.
  • Acts 13:47 : 47 for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations -- for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'
  • Gen 9:13 : 13 My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;
  • Job 38:12 : 12 Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?
  • Ps 8:1 : 1 To the Overseer, `On the Gittith.' A Psalm of David. Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth! Who settest thine honour on the heavens.

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    13and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day third.

    14And God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,

    15and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so.

    16And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of the night;

  • Gen 1:18-20
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    18and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that `it is' good;

    19and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fourth.

    20And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'

  • Gen 1:1-11
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    1In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

    2the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness `is' on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

    3and God saith, `Let light be;' and light is.

    4And God seeth the light that `it is' good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

    5and God calleth to the light `Day,' and to the darkness He hath called `Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day one.

    6And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

    7And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which `are' under the expanse, and the waters which `are' above the expanse: and it is so.

    8And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.

    9And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.

    10And God calleth to the dry land `Earth,' and to the collection of the waters He hath called `Seas;' and God seeth that `it is' good.

    11And God saith, `Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed `is' in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth:' and it is so.

  • Ps 19:1
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    1To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. The heavens `are' recounting the honour of God, And the work of His hands The expanse `is' declaring.

  • Gen 2:4
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    4These `are' births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

  • Gen 1:22
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    22And God blesseth them, saying, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'

  • Ps 148:3
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    3Praise ye Him, sun and moon, Praise ye Him, all stars of light.

  • Jer 31:35
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    35Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving the sun for a light by day, The statutes of moon and stars for a light by night, Quieting the sea when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts `is' His name:

  • Ps 8:3
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    3For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.

  • Gen 1:26-28
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    26And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

    27And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

    28And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

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    7To Him making great lights, For to the age `is' His kindness.

    8The sun to rule by day, For to the age `is' His kindness.

    9The moon and stars to rule by night, For to the age `is' His kindness.

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    2Covering himself `with' light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

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    12The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,

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    4Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,

  • Prov 3:19
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    19Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding.

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    23I looked `to' the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.

  • Jer 51:15
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    15The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,

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    1And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

  • Job 22:12
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    12Is not God high `in' heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.

  • Job 36:30
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    30Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

  • Job 26:10
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    10A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

  • Ps 148:5
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    5They do praise the name of Jehovah, For He commanded, and they were created.

  • Ps 33:6
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    6By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

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    28In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,

  • 2 Cor 4:6
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    6because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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    18Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!

  • Heb 1:10
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    10and, `Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;

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    19He made the moon for seasons, The sun hath known his place of entrance.