And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
WEB
And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.
YLT
and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so.
DBT
and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)