Genesis 1:16

New American Bible - revised edition

God made the two great lights, the greater one to govern the day, and the lesser one to govern the night, and the stars.

Cross References

Genesis 1:15

and serve as lights in the dome of the sky, to illuminate the earth. And so it happened:

Job 31:26

Had I looked upon the light as it shone, or the moon in the splendor of its progress,

Job 38:7

While 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 shining stars.

Psalm 148:5

Let them all praise the Lord’s name; for he commanded and they were created,

Psalm 19:6

it comes forth like a bridegroom from his canopy, and like a hero joyfully runs its course.

Psalm 74:16

Yours the day and yours the night too; you set the moon and sun in place.

Psalm 8:3

with the mouths of babes and infants. You have established a bulwark against your foes, to silence enemy and avenger.

Isaiah 13:10

The stars of the heavens and their constellations will send forth no light; The sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not give its light.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will blush and the sun be ashamed, For the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, glorious in the sight of the elders.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high and see who created these: He leads out their army and numbers them, calling them all by name. By his great might and the strength of his power not one of them is missing!

Isaiah 45:7

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

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun to light the day, moon and stars to light the night; Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar, whose name is Lord of hosts:

Habakkuk 3:11

the moon left its lofty station, At the light of your flying arrows, at the gleam of your flashing 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 the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Matthew 27:45

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

1 Corinthians 15:41

The brightness of the sun is one kind, the brightness of the moon another, and the brightness of the stars another. For star differs from star in brightness.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you look up to the heavens and behold the sun or the moon or the stars, the whole heavenly host, do not be led astray into bowing down to them and serving them. These the Lord, your God, has apportioned to all the other nations under the heavens;

Revelation 21:23

The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb.