5 And on the lower I placed the sun for the illumination of day, and the moon and stars for the illumination of night. (2EN)
2 Enoch 30:5
Semantically similar passages
Odes of Solomon 16:15–17
15 The treasure-chamber of the light is the sun, and the treasury of the darkness is the night: (ODE) 16 And He made the sun for the day that it may be bright, but night brings darkness over the face of the land; (ODE) 17 And their alternations one to the other speak the beauty of… (ODE)
Genesis 1:15–17
15 And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well. 17 God set these lights in the expan…
Book of Enoch 82:7–9
7 And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and years and days, has Uriel shown and revealed to me, to whom the Lord of the whole creation of the world hath subjected the host of… (ENO) 8 … (ENO)
2 Esdras 6:44–46
44 Immediately, great and innumerable fruit grew, with many pleasant tastes, and flowers of inimitable color, and fragrances of most exquisite smell. This was done the third day. (WEB) 45 “On the fourth day, you commanded that the sun should shine, the moon give its light… (WEB)
Psalms 74:15–17
15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers. 16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun. 17 You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
Odes of Solomon 16:10–12
10 He spread out the earth and He settled the waters in the sea: (ODE) 11 He measured the heavens and fixed the stars: and He established the creation and set it up: (ODE) 12 And He rested from His works: (ODE)
1 Clement 20:2–4
2 Day and night accomplish the course assigned to them by Him, without hindrance one to another. (1CL) 3 The sun and the moon and the dancing stars according to His appointment circle in harmony within the bounds assigned to them, without any swerving aside. (1CL) 4 The earth, b… (1CL)
Book of Jubilees 2:7–9
7 And on that day He created for them all the seas according to their separate gathering-places, and all the rivers, and the gatherings of the waters in the mountains and on all the earth, and all the lakes, and all the dew of the earth, and the seed which is s… (JUB)
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources