Genesis 1
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Genesis 1:14-16

14Then God said, “Let there be 12lights in the 34expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for 5signs and for 6seasons and for days and years;

15and let them be for 7lights in the 8expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

16God made the two 9great lights, the 10greater 11light 12to govern the day, and the lesser 13light 14to govern the night; He made 15the stars also.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 1:14 Or luminaries, light-bearers ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 1:14 Ps 74:16; 136:7 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 1:14 Or firmament ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 1:14 Ps 19:1; 150:1 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 1:14 Jer 10:2 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 1:14 Ps 104:19 ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 1:15 Or luminaries, light-bearers ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 1:15 Or firmament ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 1:16 Or luminaries, light-bearers ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 1:16 Ps 136:8, 9 ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 1:16 Or luminary, light-bearer ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 1:16 Lit for the dominion of ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 1:16 Or luminary, light-bearer ↩
  14. 14. Genesis 1:16 Lit for the dominion of ↩
  15. 15. Genesis 1:16 Job 38:7; Ps 8:3; Is 40:26 ↩

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