Genesis 1:16

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 1:15

Let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth.” And it was so.

Job 31:26

if I saw the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in brightness;

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 stars of light!

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

Psalm 74:16

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.

Psalm 8:3

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have established,

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and their constellations shall not give their light; the sun shall be dark when it rises, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon shall be humiliated and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts reigns in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and His glory shall be before His elders.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 45:7

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

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea so that the waves roar, the Lord of Hosts is His name:

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their places; at the light of Your arrows they went, at the flash of Your glittering spear.

Matthew 24:29

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

Matthew 27:45

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

1 Corinthians 15:41

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

Deuteronomy 4:19

And beware, lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, you are led astray and worship them, and serve them, that which the Lord your God has allotted to all nations under the whole heaven.

Revelation 21:23

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