Study it in the app“And Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;”
AndוַElohimאֱלֹהִיםsaid,יֹּאמֶר“Let there beיְהִיlightsמְאֹרֹתin the vaultבִּרְקִיעַof the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִםto separateלְהַבְדִּילthe dayבֵּין הַיּוֹםfrom the night,וּבֵין הַלָּיְלָהand let them beוְהָיוּfor signsלְאֹתֹתand for appointed timesוּלְמוֹעֲדִיםand for daysוּלְיָמִיםand years;וְשָׁנִים
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsexist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yehi” appearsluminary
The sun, moon and stars.
Where else “meorot” appearsvault
Something spread out and firm, like a sheet of metal beaten with a hammer. It is the "vault" of the heavens: what is seen above, like a roof spread over the earth, which God set to separate the waters below from the waters above; God called it "heavens".
Where else “rekia” appearssky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appearsseparate
Separate, make a distinction between two things; also set something apart for a purpose.
Where else “havdil” appearsday
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appearsnight
Night.
Where else “layla” appearssign
A mark or signal that points to something.
Where else “otot” appearsappointed time
A date fixed beforehand.
Where else “moadim” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shanim” appears13And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 · This verse (above)
15and let them be lights in the vault of the heavens to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
1. What it says
What did Elohim say about everything he had made at the end of the sixth day (v. 31)?
2. What it means
What does the text say about human beings when it says they were created in the image of Elohim (v. 27)?
3. How I live it
How can you treat the people around you today, remembering that every one of them was created in the image of Elohim?
