13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Creation
• Light and Darkness
• Word of God

• Age of the earth and Genesis 1

11 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 2Cor 4:6 — For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• 2Cor 12:2 — I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
• Acts 2:19 — And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
• Amos 5:8 — Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon
• Amos 8:9 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
• Deut 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
• Ezek 32:7 — And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
• Ezek 32:8 — All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 46:1 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be
• Ezek 46:6 — And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
• Gen 8:22 — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• Gen 9:13 — I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
• Isa 40:26 — Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power;
• Jas 1:17 — Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• Jer 10:2 — Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
• Jer 31:35 — Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of host
• Jer 31:35 — Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of host
• Jer 33:20 — Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
• Jer 33:25 — Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
• Job 3:9 — Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
• Job 25:3 — Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
• Job 25:5 — Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
• Job 38:12 — Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
• Job 38:19 — Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
• Job 38:31 — Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
• Joel 2:10 — The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
• Joel 2:30 — And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
• Joel 3:15 — The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
• Jonah 2:10 — And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
• Luke 21:25 — And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
• Luke 23:45 — And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
• Mark 13:24 — But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
• Matt 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 worship him.
• Matt 16:2 — He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
• Matt 24:29 — Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• Ps 8:3 — When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
• Ps 19:1 — The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
• Ps 19:1 — The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
• Ps 19:4 — Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
• Ps 74:16 — The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.