"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."
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Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
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:
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
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.
To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
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.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
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.
And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, -- and the stars.
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.
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.
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of the night;