Genesis 1:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.”
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“God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he madethe stars also.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 1:16 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Joshua 10:12On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
- Job 31:26if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
- Job 38:7while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
- Psalms 19:6it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
- Psalms 74:16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- Psalms 136:7He made the great lights— His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 136:9the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 148:3Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.
- Psalms 148:5Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.
- Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
- Isaiah 24:23The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.
- 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.
- Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- 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:
- Habakkuk 3:11Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
- Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
- Matthew 27:45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
- 1 Corinthians 15:41The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
- Revelation 16:8Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.
- Revelation 21:23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
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