Holy Scripture
Genesis 1:18
A church father on this verse
“To shine upon the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. These things can be understood both about the great lights and about the stars with this distinction only, that what is said "to rule over the day" refers especially to the sun; what is added "and the night" pert…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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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,
— Genesis 1:18 —
19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
20And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so.