¹⁹ He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

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.

¹⁹ And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

²⁶ If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

²⁷ A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

²⁸ That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

³ When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

⁶ His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

⁷ To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁸ The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁹ The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

³⁵ These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.