Genesis 1:16
Good News Translation
So God made the two larger lights, the sun to rule over the day and the moon to rule over the night; he also made the stars.

New Revised Standard Version
God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.

Contemporary English Version
God made two powerful lights, the brighter one to rule the day and the other to rule the night. He also made the stars.

New American Bible
God made the two great lights, the greater one to govern the day, and the lesser one to govern the night, and the stars.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.

to rule.

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.

Joshua 10:12-14 Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day that he delivered the Amorrhite in the sight of the children of Israel, and he said before them: Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O moon, toward the valley of Ajalon. . . .

Job 31:26 If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness:

Job 38:7 When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?

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

Psalm 19:6 His going out is from the end of heaven, And his circuit even to the end thereof: and there is no one that can hide himself from his heat.

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

Psalm 136:7,8,9 Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Psalm 148:3,5 Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light. . . .

Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.

Isaiah 24:23 And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, in the light of thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering spear.

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.

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.

1 Corinthians 15:41 One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.

Revelation 16:8,9 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire. . . .

Revelation 21:23 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

he made the stars also.

Context
The Fourth Day
15To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth, and it was so done. 16And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.17And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:15
To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth, and it was so done.

Job 38:7
When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?

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

Psalm 136:8
The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalm 136:9
The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

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.

Genesis 1:15
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