Misc/Scriptures/Space and the Firmament: Difference between revisions

== Space and the Firmament ==

 

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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A14&version=KJV Genesis 1:14] || Then God said, “'''Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens''' to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;

 

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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+4%3A19&version=KJV Deuteronomy 4:19] || And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest '''the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven''', shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

 

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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+40%3A22&version=KJV Isaiah 40:22] || It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who '''stretches out the heavens like a curtain''', and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

 

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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+1%3A22-28&version=KJV Ezekiel 1:22-28] || 22) And the likeness of the '''firmament''' upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. 23) And '''under the firmament''' were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. 24) And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. 25) And there was a '''voice from the firmament''' that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. 26) And '''above the firmament''' that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 27) And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. 28) As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

 

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| [[:File:The_Complete_Book_of_Enoch,_Standard_English_Version_-_Jay_Winter.pdf|4 Enoch]] 2:93-108 || 93) And the names of the '''sun''' are the following: the first Orjares, and the second Tomas. 94) And the '''moon''' has four names: the first name is Asonja, the second Ebla, the third Benase, and the fourth Erae. 95) '''These are the two great luminaries''': their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, '''and the size of the circumference of both is alike.''' 96) In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted. 97) And they set and enter the portals of the west, and '''make their revolution by the north''', and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the heaven. 98) And when the moon rises one−fourteenth part appears in the heaven: the light becomes full in her on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. 99) And fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day her light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by fourteenth parts. 100) And in her waning decreases on the first day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light disappears wholly on the fifteenth. 101) And in certain months the month has twenty−nine days and once twenty−eight. 102) And Uriel showed me another law: '''when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it is transferred to her by the sun'''. 103) During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen daysher light is accomplished in the heaven, and when she is illumined throughout, her light is accomplished full in the heaven. 104) And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun. 105) On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end and her circumference is empty, void of light. 106) And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months of twenty−nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and seventy−seven days. 107) And in the time of her going out she appears for three months thirty days each, and for three months she appears twenty−nine each. 108) At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is nothing else in her save her light.

 

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| [[:File:3_baruch.pdf|3 Baruch]] 2:1-2 || 1) And he took me and led me where the '''firmament has been set fast''', and where there was a river 2) which no one can cross, nor any strange breeze of all those which God created. And he took me and led me to the first heaven, and showed me a door of great size...

 

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| [[:File:APOCRYPHA_OF_THE_KING_JAMES_BIBLE_1611.pdf|The Prayer of Azariah and the Songs of the Three Jews]] 1:34 || Blessed art thou in the '''firmament of heaven''': and above ail to be praised and glorified for ever

 

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