 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1766 - 722 pages
...immenfe materials together, when he made this world — this fyftem of worlds. And God (aid, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide...figns, and for feafons, and for days, and for years*. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth : [and upon... | |
 | William Derham - Astronomy - 1786 - 490 pages
...months i as the fun doth our days and years, according to that appointment of the Creator, Gen. 5. i4. " And God faid, Let there be lights in the " firmament...be for figns, and " for feafons, and for days, and years." And laftly, as to the lunar latitude, or progrefles towards our poles, befides the ufe hereof... | |
 | Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - Egypt - 1787 - 534 pages
...Egyptians underftand the fame by this expreflion, as God, fpeaking of the Sun and Moon (m) , " Let there be " lights in the firmament of the Heaven, " to divide...be for figns, and for feafons, and for " days, and years." The following paftage favours this ppinion. '* The Egyptians paint " the Sun borne in a fhip,... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...his kind : and God faw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 14 And God faid, Let there be lights in the firmament...them be for figns, and for feafons, and for days and years. 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth :... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1795 - 630 pages
...WINTER, 1794 5. PROBABLY the laft winter was the feverell that ever occurred in ihii ifland fmce " God faid, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven Co divide the day from the night; and let them be for figns, and for ftafom, and for days, and years.'*... | |
 | Robert Walker (rector of Shingham.) - 1796 - 486 pages
...indeed vouchfafcd by the " Father of Lights, who appointed the fun, moon, and ftars, their circuits in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night, and to be for figns and for feafons, and for days and years," the obvious inference is, "That... | |
 | Philip Howard - Bible and science - 1797 - 638 pages
...confines himfelf entirely to this globe, as its diftribution is the only one interefting to man, 41 And God faid, Let there be lights in the firmament...figns, and for feafons, and for days, and for years. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth : and it was... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1801 - 400 pages
...time immediately after the hiftory of the flood11. Not a word is faid, relative to the diftinction between winter and fummer, previous to the narrative...creation. " And God faid, Let there be lights in the lf firmament of the heaven, to divide the " day from the night ; and let them be " for figns, and for... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1802 - 552 pages
...they have that lignification. Thus, where we read, in the Englilh Bible, ' And God laid, let their be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the rvight, &c. and Ood fet them in the firmament of the heaven," the Greek words for A j firmament of... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night : and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. And let them be for... | |
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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days, 
