Genesis 1:14

New English Translation

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

Cross References

Genesis 1:13

There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.

Genesis 1:15

and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

Genesis 8:22

“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Genesis 9:13

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

Job 25:3

Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

Job 25:5

If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

Job 3:9

Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

Psalm 119:91

Today they stand firm by your decrees, for all things are your servants.

Psalm 148:3

Praise him, O sun and moon! Praise him, all you shiny stars!

Psalm 148:6

He established them so they would endure; he issued a decree that will not be revoked.

Psalm 150:1

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in the sky, which testifies to his strength!

Psalm 81:3

Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon, and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins.

Isaiah 40:26

Look up at the sky! Who created all these heavenly lights? He is the one who leads out their ranks; he calls them all by name. Because of his absolute power and awesome strength, not one of them is missing.

Jeremiah 10:2

The Lord says, “Do not start following pagan religious practices. Do not be in awe of signs that occur in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe.

Jeremiah 31:35

The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

Jeremiah 33:20

“I, Lord, make the following promise: ‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant

Jeremiah 33:25

But I, the Lord, make the following promise: I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth.

Ezekiel 46:1

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.

Ezekiel 46:6

On the day of the new moon he will offer an unblemished young bull, and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish.

Joel 2:10

The earth quakes before them; the sky reverberates. The sun and the moon grow dark; the stars refuse to shine.

Joel 3:15

The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.

Amos 5:8

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name!

Amos 8:9

In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

Matthew 2:2

saying, “Where is the one who is born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

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.

Mark 13:24

“But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light;

Luke 23:45

because the sun’s light failed. The temple curtain was torn in two.

Deuteronomy 4:19

When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars – the whole heavenly creation – you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the Lord your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.

Revelation 6:12

Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;

Revelation 8:12

Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. And there was no light for a third of the day and for a third of the night likewise.

Revelation 9:2

He opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it like smoke from a giant furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft.