Genesis 1:16

New English Translation

God made two great lights – the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

Cross References

Genesis 1:15

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

Job 31:26

if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

Job 38:7

when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalm 148:3

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

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he gave the command and they came into existence.

Psalm 19:6

It emerges from the distant horizon, and goes from one end of the sky to the other; nothing can escape its heat.

Psalm 74:16

You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.

Psalm 8:3

When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

Isaiah 13:10

Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.

Isaiah 24:23

The full moon will be covered up, the bright sun will be darkened; for the Lord who commands armies will rule on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in the presence of his assembly, in majestic splendor.

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.

Isaiah 45:7

I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.

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.

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear.

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.

Matthew 27:45

Now from noon until three, darkness came 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, for star differs from star in glory.

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 21:23

The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.