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Genesis 1:14-15 KJV
Genesis · chapter 1 · verses 14–15
14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.Genesis 1:14-15 · King James Version
Genesis 1:14-15 in context
12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16And 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.
17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Commentary
Cross references
- Psalms 104:19-20
- Deuteronomy 4:19
- Psalms 74:16-17
- Jeremiah 31:35
- Psalms 148:3
- Psalms 136:7-9
- Psalms 148:6
- Psalms 8:3-4
Key words (Strong's)
- firmamentrâqîyaʻproperly, an expanseH7549 →
- seasonsmôwʻêdproperly, an appointmentH4150 →
- lightsmâʼôwrproperly, a luminous body or luminaryH3974 →
- heavenshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- dividebâdalto divideH914 →
- nightlayilproperly, a twistH3915 →
- signsʼôwtha signal , as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etcH226 →
- lightʼôwrto be luminousH215 →
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This is the history of the fourth day's work, the creating of the sun, moon, and stars, which are here accounted for, not as they are in themselves and in their own nature, to satisfy the curious, but as they are in relation to this earth, to which they serve as lights;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-19