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15 Moreover, let them be as lights hung up within the hollow roof or Firmament the expanse of the sky of heaven, to give light to men walking upon the pavement of the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater one, the most glorious and Princely object we can see by day, to be as it were the Governor and Monarch of the day; the lesser, the most resplendent and illustrious sight we can cast our eyes on by night, to be Governess and Queen of the night. And he made, though for their smallness they be not so considerable, the Stars also.

17 And he placed them all in the Firmament expanse of heaven, to give light upon the earth.

18 And to show their preheminence superiority for external lustre, above whatever else appears by either day or night, and to be peculiar garnishings or ornaments to make a notable difference betwixt the light and the darkness, the superaddition of the Sun to adorn the day, and to invigorate the light thereof, the Moon and the Stars to garnish the night, and to mitigate the dulness and darkness thereof. And God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning was the fourth natural day.

20 After this, God commanded the waters to bring forth fish and fowl, which they did in abundance, and the fowl flew above the earth

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earth in the open Firmament expanse of heaven.

21 And God created great whales also as well as other fishes, that move in the waters; and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply on the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning made up the fifth natural day.

24 Then God commanded the earth to bring forth all creeping things, and four footed beasts, as before he commanded the waters to send forth fish and fowl; and it was so.

25 And when God had made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle, and every creeping thing after his kind, he saw that it was good.

26 And coming at last to his highest Master-piece, Man, he encouraged himself, saying, Go to, let us now make man, and I will make him after the same image and shape that I bear myself; and he shall have dominion over the fish of the Sea, and over the fowls of the Air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own shape and figure, with an upright stature, with legs, hands, arms, with a face and mouth, to speak, and command, as God himself hath: I say, in the