New American Standard Bible 2020

Genesis 1:14-18

14Then God said, “Let there be 1 2lights in the 3 4expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and they shall 5serve as 6signs and for 7seasons, and for days and years;

15and they 8shall serve as lights in the 9expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

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

17 14God placed them in the 15expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,

18and 16to 17govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

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Notes

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

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