Genesis 1:16 - English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the 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

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

Job 31:26

if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,

Job 38:7

when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalm 148:3

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

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created.

Psalm 19:6

Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

Psalm 74:16

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

Psalm 8:3

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing.

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

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:

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.

Matthew 24:29

“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.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

1 Corinthians 15:41

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.