Genesis 1:14 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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)

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ 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:

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁴ And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from 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 it became evening and the morning, the third day.

Genesis 1:15

Let them shine in the firmament of heaven and illuminate the earth." And so it became.

Genesis 8:22

All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease."

Genesis 9:13

I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth.

Job 25:3

Is there any limit to the number of his soldiers or to the number of those over whom his light rises?

Job 25:5

Behold, even the moon is not radiant, and the stars are not pure, in his sight.

Job 3:9

Let the stars be concealed with its darkness. Let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawn in the East.

Psalm 148:3

Praise him, sun and moon. Praise him, all stars and light.

Psalm 148:6

He has stationed them in eternity, and for age after age. He has established a precept, and it will not pass away.

Psalm 150:1

Alleluia. Praise the Lord in his holy places. Praise him in the firmament of his power.

Psalm 81:3

Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things. He leads forth their army by number, and he calls them all by name. Because of the fullness of his strength and robustness and virtue, not one of them was left behind.

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus says the Lord: "Do not choose to learn according to the ways of the Gentiles. And do not be willing to dread the signs of heaven, which the Gentiles fear.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun as the light of the day, who puts the moon and the stars in order as the light of the night, who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 33:20

"Thus says the Lord: If my covenant with the day is able to be nullified, or my covenant with the night, such that there would be no day and no night in their time,

Jeremiah 33:25

Thus says the Lord: If I have not established my covenant with the day and the night, and my laws over heaven and earth,

Ezekiel 46:1

Thus says the Lord God: "The gate of the inner court which looks toward the east shall be closed for the six days on which work is done. Then, on the Sabbath day, it shall be opened. But also on the day of the new moon, it shall be opened.

Ezekiel 46:6

Then, on the day of the new moon, he shall offer one immaculate calf from the herd. Both the six lambs and the rams shall be immaculate.

Joel 2:10

Before their face, the earth has trembled, the heavens have been moved. The sun and moon have been obscured, and the stars have retracted their splendor.

Joel 3:15

The sun and the moon have been darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their splendor.

Amos 5:8

The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

Amos 8:9

And it will be in that day, says the Lord God, that the sun will decline at midday, and I will cause the earth to become dark on the day of light.

Matthew 2:2

saying: "Where is he who was born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and we have come to adore him."

Matthew 24:29

And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Mark 13:24

But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her splendor.

Luke 23:45

And the sun was obscured. And the veil of the temple was torn down the middle.

Deuteronomy 4:19

Otherwise, perhaps lifting up your eyes to heaven, you might look upon the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error, you might adore and worship these things, which the Lord your God created for the service of all the nations, which are under heaven.

Revelation 6:12

And when he had opened the sixth seal, I saw, and behold, a great earthquake occurred. And the sun became black, like a haircloth sack, and the entire moon became like blood.

Revelation 8:12

And the fourth Angel sounded the trumpet. And a third part of the sun, and a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars were struck, in such a way that a third part of them was obscured. And a third part of the day did not shine, and similarly the night.

Revelation 9:2

And he opened the well of the abyss. And the smoke of the well ascended, like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were obscured by the smoke of the well.