Genesis 1:16
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.
KJV
Fecitque Deus duo luminaria magna : luminare majus, ut præesset diei : et luminare minus, ut præesset nocti : et stellas.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τοὺς δύο φωστῆρας τοὺς μεγάλους, τὸν φωστῆρα τὸν μέγαν εἰς ἀρχὰς τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ τὸν φωστῆρα τὸν ἐλάσσω εἰς ἀρχὰς τῆς νυκτός, καὶ τοὺς ἀστέρας.
LXX
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.
ASV
וַ/יַּ֣עַשׂ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת שְׁנֵ֥י הַ/מְּאֹרֹ֖ת הַ/גְּדֹלִ֑ים אֶת הַ/מָּא֤וֹר הַ/גָּדֹל֙ לְ/מֶמְשֶׁ֣לֶת הַ/יּ֔וֹם וְ/אֶת הַ/מָּא֤וֹר הַ/קָּטֹן֙ לְ/מֶמְשֶׁ֣לֶת הַ/לַּ֔יְלָה וְ/אֵ֖ת הַ/כּוֹכָבִֽים
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:41 — There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
- 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
- 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
- Hab 3:11 — The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
- Isa 13:10 — For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
- Isa 24:23 — 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 ancients gloriously.
- 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;
- Isa 45:7 — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
- Job 9:9 — Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
- Job 31:26 — If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
- Job 38:7 — When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- Job 38:33 — Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
- Josh 10:12 — Then spake Joshua 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 thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, i
- 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:
- Matt 27:45 — Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
- Ps 8:3 — When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
- Ps 8:3 — When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
- Ps 19:6 — His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
- Ps 74:16 — The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
- Ps 136:7 — To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
- Ps 148:3 — Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
- Ps 148:5 — Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
- Rev 16:8 — And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
- Rev 21:23 — And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.