Genesis 1:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And 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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs and tokens [of God's provident care], and [to mark] seasons, days, and years, [Gen. 8:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

Common English Bible

God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will mark events, sacred seasons, days, and years.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then God said: "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

Genesis 1:14 Cross References

Genesis 1:13

And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

Genesis 1:15

and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so.

Genesis 8:22

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.”

Genesis 9:13

I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Job 25:3

Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

Job 25:5

If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his sight,

Job 3:9

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none; may it not see the eyelids of the morning—

Psalm 119:91

By your appointment they stand today, for all things are your servants.

Psalm 148:3

Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars!

Psalm 148:6

He established them forever and ever; he fixed their bounds, which cannot be passed.

Psalm 150:1

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty firmament!

Psalm 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal day.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing.

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the way of the nations or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens, for the nations are dismayed at them.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name:

Jeremiah 33:20

Thus says the Lord: If any of you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their appointed time,

Jeremiah 33:25

Thus says the Lord: Only if I had not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth

Ezekiel 46:1

“Thus says the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall remain closed on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Ezekiel 46:6

On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull of the herd without blemish and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish;

Joel 2:10

The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

Joel 3:15

The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the water of the sea and pours it out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,

Amos 8:9

On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

Matthew 2:2

asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star in the east and have come to pay him homage.”

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

Mark 13:24

“But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,

Luke 23:45

while the sun’s light failed, and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.

Revelation 6:12

When he broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,

Revelation 8:12

The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light was darkened; a third of the day was kept from shining and likewise the night.

Revelation 9:2

he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.