Genesis 1.16
Hebrew: God made the two great lights, the greater light to dominate the day and the lesser light to dominate the night, and the stars.
Greek: And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars.
Vulgate: And God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Peshitta: And God made two great lights.. The great(er) light to rule over the day and the smaller light to rule over the night and the stars.
Targums:
- Onkelos: And the Lord made the two great luminaries, the greater luminary to rule during day-time and the lesser luminary to rule during nighttime, and the stars.
- Neophyti: And the Memra of the Lord created the two great lights: the greater light to rule in the daytime and the lesser light to rule in the night, and the arrangement of the stars.
- PS. Jonathan: God made the two great lights, and they were equal in glory for twenty-one hours less six hundred and seventy two parts of an hour. After that the moon spoke with a slanderous tongue against the sun, and it was made smaller. And he appointed the sun which was the greater light to rule over the days, and the moon which was the lesser light
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