New American Standard Bible 1995

Genesis 1:14-19

14Then God said, “Let there be 1 2lights in the 3 4expanse 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. 17 16God placed them in the 17expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and 18to 19govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

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Notes

1. Genesis 1:14 Or luminaries, light-bearers ↩
2. Genesis 1:14 Ps 74:16; 136:7 ↩
3. Genesis 1:14 Or firmament ↩
4. Genesis 1:14 Ps 19:1; 150:1 ↩
5. Genesis 1:14 Jer 10:2 ↩
6. Genesis 1:14 Ps 104:19 ↩
7. Genesis 1:15 Or luminaries, light-bearers ↩
8. Genesis 1:15 Or firmament ↩
9. Genesis 1:16 Or luminaries, light-bearers ↩
10. Genesis 1:16 Ps 136:8, 9 ↩
11. Genesis 1:16 Or luminary, light-bearer ↩
12. Genesis 1:16 Lit for the dominion of ↩
13. Genesis 1:16 Or luminary, light-bearer ↩
14. Genesis 1:16 Lit for the dominion of ↩
15. Genesis 1:16 Job 38:7; Ps 8:3; Is 40:26 ↩
16. Genesis 1:17 Jer 33:20, 25 ↩
17. Genesis 1:17 Or firmament ↩
18. Genesis 1:18 Lit for the dominion of ↩
19. Genesis 1:18 Jer 31:35 ↩

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