Genesis 1:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ 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.

Genesis 1:16 Cross References

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.

Psalm 8:3

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;

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.

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he commanded and they were created.

Psalm 74:16

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.

Psalm 148:3

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

Job 38:7

when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?

1 Corinthians 15:41

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

Matthew 27:45

From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Habakkuk 3:11

the moon stood still in its exalted place, at the light of your arrows speeding by, at the gleam of your flashing spear.

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe; I the Lord do all these things.

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.

Psalm 19:6

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

Revelation 21:23

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

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his elders he will be glorified.

Job 31:26

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

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.

Genesis 1:15

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

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: