Genesis 1:14
Good News Translation
Then God commanded, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;

New Revised Standard Version
And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,

Contemporary English Version
God said, "I command lights to appear in the sky and to separate day from night and to show the time for seasons, special days, and years.

New American Bible
Then God said: Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, to separate day from night. Let them mark the seasons, the days and the years,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

Let there.

Deuteronomy 4:19 Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.

Job 25:3,5 Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise? . . .

Job 38:12-14 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? . . .

Psalm 8:3,4 For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded. . . .

Psalm 19:1-6 Unto the end. A Psalm for David. [2] The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands. . . .

Psalm 74:16,17 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun. . . .

Psalm 104:19,20 He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. . . .

Psalm 119:91 By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee.

Psalm 136:7-9 Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Psalm 148:3,6 Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light. . . .

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing.

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 33:20,25 Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season: . . .

lights.

Genesis 1:3 And God said: Be light made. And light was made.

. the day from the night.

between the day and between the night.

Genesis 8:22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

Genesis 9:13 I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.

Job 3:9 Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

Job 38:31,32 Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus? . . .

Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

Ezekiel 32:7,8 And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. . . .

Ezekiel 46:1,6 Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east, shall be shut the six days, on which work is done; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, yea and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. . . .

Joel 2:10,30,31 At their presence the earth hath trembled, the heavens are moved: the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining. . . .

Joel 3:15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.

Amos 5:8 Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

Amos 8:9 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river, and be cast out, and run down as the river of Egypt?

Matthew 2:2 Saying: Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East, and are come to adore him.

Matthew 16:2,3 But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red. . . .

Matthew 24:29 And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved.

Mark 13:24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light.

Luke 21:25,26 And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves: . . .

Luke 23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

Acts 2:19,20 And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke. . . .

Revelation 6:12 And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal: and behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood.

Revelation 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened. And the day did not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner.

Revelation 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.

Context
The Fourth Day
13And the evening and the morning were the third day. 14And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:15To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth, and it was so done.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:13
And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Genesis 1:15
To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth, and it was so done.

Psalm 19:1
Unto the end. A Psalm for David. [2] The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.

Psalm 74:16
Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

Psalm 104:19
He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

Psalm 136:7
Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalm 150:1
Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power.

Jeremiah 10:2
Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear:

Jeremiah 31:35
Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.

Ezekiel 32:8
I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee and I will cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God, when thy wounded shall fall in the midst of the land, saith the Lord God.

Genesis 1:13
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