14 Then God said, “Let there be [a](A)lights in the [b](B)expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and they shall [c]serve as (C)signs and for (D)seasons, and for days and years; 15 and they [d]shall serve as lights in the [e]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights, the (E)greater light [f]to govern the day, and the lesser light [g]to govern the night; He made (F)the stars also. 17 (G)God placed them in the [h]expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and [i]to (H)govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 1:14 Or luminaries, light-bearers, and so throughout the ch
  2. Genesis 1:14 Or firmament; i.e., atmosphere and space
  3. Genesis 1:14 Lit be for
  4. Genesis 1:15 Lit be for
  5. Genesis 1:15 Or firmament
  6. Genesis 1:16 Lit for the dominion of
  7. Genesis 1:16 Lit for the dominion of
  8. Genesis 1:17 Or firmament
  9. Genesis 1:18 Lit for the dominion of

And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all (A)their heavenly [a]lights. By (B)the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and (C)He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created [b]and made.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:1 Lit host i.e., sun, stars, etc.
  2. Genesis 2:3 Lit to make

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