Genesis 1:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.”
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“And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:”
King James Version · Public Domain“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And 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,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 1:14 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- Genesis 9:13I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
- Deuteronomy 4:19When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
- Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
- Job 25:3Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
- Job 25:5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
- Job 38:12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
- Job 38:31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
- Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
- Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
- Psalms 19:1The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
- Psalms 74:16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- Psalms 81:3Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
- Psalms 104:19He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
- Psalms 119:91Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.
- Psalms 136:7He made the great lights— His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 148:3Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.
- Psalms 148:6He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.
- Isaiah 40:26Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
- Jeremiah 10:2This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
- Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
- Jeremiah 33:20“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
- Jeremiah 33:25This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
- Ezekiel 32:7When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
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