Holy Scripture
Genesis 1:15
A church father on this verse
“"Let them serve," he says, "for the fixing of days," not for making days but for ordering the days. For day and night are earlier than the generation of the luminaries. This the psalm declares to us when it says: "He placed the sun to rule the day, the moon and stars to rule the night." How, then, does the sun rule th…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
15And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so.
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13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years.
— Genesis 1:15 —
16And God made the two great lights, the greater light for regulating the day and the lesser light for regulating the night, the stars also.
17And God placed them in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth,