And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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Gill's Exposition
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven,.... He not only ordered that there they should be, and made them that there they might be, but he placed them there with his own hands; and they are…
- VI. The Fourth Day 14. מאור mā'ôr, “a light, a luminary, a center of radiant light.” מועה mô‛ēd, “set time, season.” Words beginning with a formative מ musually signify that in which the simple…
This is the history of the fourth day's work, the creating of the sun, moon, and stars, which are here accounted for, not as they are in themselves and in their own nature, to satisfy the curious, but…
Cambridge Bible
And God set them Having made the heavenly bodies (as in Gen 1:1) God is now said to "set," that is, to place (LXX ἔθετο, Lat. posuit), them in "the firmament of heaven." They are located in the firm…