Verse 16

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

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Gud laget de to store lysene: det største lyset til å herske over dagen og det minste lyset til å herske over natten, samt stjernene.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Gud skapte de to store lysene: det store lyset til å råde over dagen og det mindre lyset til å råde over natten; han skapte også stjernene.

• Norsk King James

  Gud skapte de to store lysene: det større lyset til å herske over dagen, og det mindre lyset til å herske over natten, samt stjernene.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Gud gjorde de to store lysene: det største til å regjere dagen, og det minste til å regjere natten, og stjernene.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Gud gjorde de to store lysene: det største til å råde om dagen, og det minste til å råde om natten, og stjernene.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Gud gjorde de to store lysene: det største lyset til å råde over dagen, og det mindre lyset til å råde over natten, og stjernene.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Gud skapte to store lys; det større for å herske over dagen, og det mindre for å herske over natten, og han skapte også stjernene.

• claude3.7

  And made God the two great lights, the greater light for the rule of the day, and the lesser light for the rule of the night, and the stars.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Gud gjorde de to store lysene: det største lyset til å råde over dagen, og det mindre lyset til å råde over natten, og stjernene.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Gud gjorde de to store lysene; det største lyset til å råde om dagen og det mindre lyset til å råde om natten, og stjernene.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Gud laget de to store lysene, det største til å råde om dagen og det minste til å råde om natten, og stjernene.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og Gud gjorde de to store Lys: det store Lys at regjere Dagen, og det lille Lys at regjere Natten, og Stjernerne.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Og Gud gjorde to store lys, det større lys til å herske over dagen, og det mindre lys til å herske over natten; han lagde også stjernene.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Gud gjorde de to store lysene: det større lyset til å herske over dagen, og det mindre lyset til å herske over natten. Han gjorde også stjernene.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Gud laget de to store lysene, det store lyset til å herske over dagen, og det lille lyset til å herske over natten, og stjernene.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Gud laget de to store lysene: det største, til å råde over dagen, og det mindre, til å råde over natten; han laget også stjernene.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Gud laget de to store lysene, det større lyset til å styre dagen og det mindre lyset til å styre natten, og han laget stjernene.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And God made two great lyghtes A greater lyghte to rule the daye and a lesse lyghte to rule the nyghte and he made sterres also.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And God made two great lyghtes: a greater lyght to rule the day, and a lesse lyght to rule the nyght, and he made starres also.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And 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;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  God made two great lights– the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 8:3 : 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
• Deut 4:19 : 19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.
• Ps 136:7-9 : 7 To him who made great lights: for his mercy endures forever: 8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endures forever: 9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endures forever.
• Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power; not one is missing.
• Ps 148:5 : 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He commanded and they were created.
• Ps 148:3 : 3 Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars of light.
• Job 38:7 : 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
• Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.
• Rev 16:8-9 : 8 And the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent to give Him glory.
• Rev 21:23 : 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God illuminated it, and the Lamb is its light.
• Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light: the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
• Isa 24:23 : 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his elders gloriously.
• Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.
• Hab 3:11 : 11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; at the light of Your arrows they went, and at the shining of Your glittering spear.
• Matt 24:29 : 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
• Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
• 1 Cor 15:41 : 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
• Josh 10:12-14 : 12 Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon. 13 So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD heeded the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
• Job 31:26 : 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
• Ps 19:6 : 6 His going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.