Genesis 1:16
God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
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to rule.

Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars--all the host of heaven--do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Joshua 10:12-14
On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: "O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon." . . .

Job 31:26
if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or at the moon moving in splendor,

Job 38:7
while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalm 8:3
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place--

Psalm 19:6
It rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Psalm 74:16
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

Psalm 136:7, 8, 9
He made the great lights--His loving devotion endures forever. . . .

Psalm 148:3, 5
Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars. . . .

Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened when it rises, and the moon will not give its light.

Isaiah 24:23
The moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and in the presence of His elders, He will display His glory.

Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Habakkuk 3:11
Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: 'The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.'

Matthew 27:45
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

1 Corinthians 15:41
The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

Revelation 16:8, 9
Next, the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire. . . .

Revelation 21:23
And the city has no need for sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.

he made the stars also.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.

King James Bible
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God made the two great lights--the greater light to have dominion over the day and the lesser light to have dominion over the night--as well as the stars.

International Standard Version
God fashioned two great lights—the larger light to shine during the day and the smaller light to shine during the night—as well as stars.

NET Bible
God made two great lights--the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.
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