Gen 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: {the day...: Heb. between the day and between the night}
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He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, {even} all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. {divided: or, imparted}
The day {is} thine, the night also {is} thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, {and} the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts {is} his name:
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
To him that made great lights: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
{Seek him} that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD {is} his name:
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. {While...: Heb. As yet all the days of the earth}
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these {things}, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that {he is} strong in power; not one faileth.
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. {put...: or, extinguish thee}
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant {be} not with day and night, {and if} I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, {It will be} fair weather: for the sky is red.
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; {and} caused the dayspring to know his place;
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? {Pleiades: or, the seven stars: Heb. Cimah} {Orion: Heb. Cesil?}
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
And in the day of the new moon {it shall be} a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all {are} thy servants.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but {have} none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: {the dawning...: Heb. the eyelids of the morning}
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, {line: or, rule, or, direction}
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to {give} the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. {hath: Gr. is he who hath}
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
Where {is} the way {where} light dwelleth? and {as for} darkness, where {is} the place thereof,
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and {as} a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
The day {is} thine, the night also {is} thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, {and} the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts {is} his name:
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. {bright...: Heb. lights of the light in heaven} {dark: Heb. them dark}
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry {land}.
To him that made great lights: for his mercy {endureth} for ever:
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl {that} may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. {moving: or, creeping} {life: Heb. soul} {fowl...: Heb. let fowl fly} {open...: Heb. face of the firmament of heaven}
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. {firmament: Heb. expansion}
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
{There is} one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for {one} star differeth from {another} star in glory.
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.