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 starres also.”
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Genesis 1:16 Context
14¶ And God said, Let there bee lights in the firmament of the heauen, to diuide the day from the night: and let them be for signes and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres. 15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heauen, to giue light vpon 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 starres also. 17And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to giue light vpon the earth: 18And to rule ouer the day, and ouer the night, and to diuide the light from the darkenesse: and God saw that it was good.
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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.
- King James Version
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; {He made} the stars also.
- New American Standard Version (1995)