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Genesis 1:15
And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:15 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 1:15 in other translations
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.
and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
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In context
12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
15 And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.
17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;
18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.
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