Genesis 1:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 stars also.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights–the greater light (the sun) to rule the day and the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night. He also made the stars.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ God made the stars and two great lights: the larger light to rule over the day and the smaller light to rule over the night.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And God made two great lights: a greater light, to rule over the day, and a lesser light, to rule over the night, along with the stars.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.

Genesis 1:16 Cross References

Genesis 1:15

5 To shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth. And it was so done.

Job 31:26

1 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

Job 38:7

3 And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

Psalm 148:3

0 Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls:

Psalm 148:5

2 Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the name of the Lord:

Psalm 19:6

3 and from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin.

Psalm 74:16

3 Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.

Psalm 8:3

Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David: I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.

Isaiah 13:10

8 But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.

Isaiah 24:23

He shall cast death down headlong forever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Isaiah 40:26

He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, no path shall appear after his feet.

Isaiah 45:7

5 Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.

Jeremiah 31:35

For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up, saying: Why dost thou prophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it?

Habakkuk 3:11

9 The Lord God is my strength: and he will make my feet like the feet of harts: and he the conqueror will lead me upon my high places singing psalms.

Matthew 24:29

7 And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 27:45

3 And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city, and appeared to many.

1 Corinthians 15:41

0 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption.

Deuteronomy 4:19

4 Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Revelation 21:23

And night shall be no more: and they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten them, and they shall reign for ever and ever.