Genesis 1
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Genesis 1:16-19

16God made the two great lights, the 1greater light 2to govern the day, and the lesser light 3to govern the night; He made 4the stars also. 175God placed them in the 6expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18and 7to 8govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 1:16 Ps 136:8, 9 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 1:16 Lit for the dominion of ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 1:16 Lit for the dominion of ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 1:16 Job 38:7; Ps 8:3; Is 40:26 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 1:17 Jer 33:20, 25 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 1:17 Or firmament ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 1:18 Lit for the dominion of ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 1:18 Jer 31:35 ↩

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